County-verified distress filings, sourced daily — not predicted, not batch-refreshed.
Real estate agents get motivated seller leads from three main places: public-record distress filings such as pre-foreclosure, liens, and bankruptcy; FSBO and expired-listing scrapes; and batch data platforms like PropStream. PropScored sources directly from daily-scraped county records across 15+ Georgia and Florida counties, delivering leads within a median of two days of filing.
Most agents pull from one of three buckets: general marketing/FSBO lists, subscription batch platforms that license bulk public data, or direct public-record monitoring. County courthouses, tax collector offices, and bankruptcy courts file pre-foreclosure notices, tax delinquencies, liens, and bankruptcy petitions every business day — but most lead vendors only touch those records on a periodic license refresh. PropScored's model sits in the third bucket: 11 distress signal types tracked across DeKalb, Gwinnett, Cobb, Fulton, Cherokee, Forsyth, Hall, Henry, Clayton, Hillsborough FL, Pinellas FL, and other Georgia and Florida counties, scraped every day rather than licensed in bulk. See the full breakdown of distressed seller lead signals.
A lead is only motivated for a limited window. Across 1,142 timestamped filings, PropScored's median gap between a public-record filing and a sourced lead is 2 days — 1 day for bankruptcy, 3 days for pre-foreclosure, and 7 days for liens (county lien lists arrive as periodic bulk loads, the one exception to daily scraping). Batch platforms like PropStream, by contrast, refresh on roughly 30-90 day cycles, so the same filing can sit stale for months before it ever reaches an agent's desk. Read more on how data freshness is measured.
"By the time a batch list refreshes, the pre-foreclosure filing I need is already sixty days old. PropScored gets it to me in three."
Freshness only matters if the contact information still works. Across 5,265 sourced prospects, 84% carry a verified phone or email — 69% phone, 64% email. Contactability varies by signal: FSBO sits at 96%, liens at 97%, pre-foreclosure at 95%, expired listings at 82%, and tax delinquent records at 81%. Compare that to lists pulled straight from tax delinquent property records without verification, where stale phone numbers and disconnected emails are common.
Predictive lists score homeowners on modeled likelihood of selling, not confirmed distress. A public-record filing — a lien, a bankruptcy petition, a pre-foreclosure notice — is a fact, not a forecast. That distinction is why agents comparing PropStream alternatives increasingly look for vendors that verify against the county record rather than model probability.
| Factor | PropScored | Batch/Predictive Platforms |
|---|---|---|
| Refresh cycle | Daily scrape, 2-day median to lead | 30-90 day refresh cycles |
| Source of motivation | Confirmed public-record filing | Predicted/modeled likelihood |
| Contact data | 84% verified phone or email | Often stale or unverified |
| Exclusivity | One agent per zip code | Sold to unlimited agents |
Public-record definitions of filings like bankruptcy vary by jurisdiction; the U.S. federal courts' bankruptcy basics page outlines how those filings become part of the public record in the first place.
Agents already working Georgia distress signals can see coverage details on the Georgia motivated seller leads page, or review how outreach is handled on listing leads for realtors.
See exactly how a filing turns into a delivered lead on the how it works page.
Compare the pilot and standard plans on the pricing page.