County-verified distress filings, sourced daily, not predicted, not batch-refreshed.
Motivated seller leads come from three places, no more. Public-record distress filings, pre-foreclosure, liens, bankruptcy. FSBO and expired-listing scrapes. Or batch data platforms like PropStream. I built PropScored around the first bucket: daily-scraped county records across metro Atlanta counties in Georgia, with leads delivered a median of two days after the filing hits the courthouse.
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. Most vendors only touch those records on a periodic license refresh, weeks or months later. PropScored lives in the third bucket. Eleven distress signal types, tracked daily across DeKalb, Gwinnett, Cobb, Fulton, Cherokee, Forsyth, Hall, Henry, Clayton, and other Georgia counties. Scraped every day, not licensed in bulk. See the full breakdown of distressed seller lead signals.
A lead is only motivated for a limited window. I've timestamped 1,142 filings against delivery, and the median gap runs 2 days, 1 day for bankruptcy, 3 days for pre-foreclosure, 7 days for liens (county lien lists come in as periodic bulk loads, the one exception to daily scraping). Batch platforms like PropStream refresh on 30-90 day cycles. That same filing can sit stale for months before it ever crosses 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 means nothing if the phone number is dead. Across 5,265 sourced prospects, 84% carry a verified phone or email, 69% a phone, 64% an email, many with both. Contactability shifts by signal type: FSBO sits at 96%, liens at 97%, pre-foreclosure at 95%, expired listings at 82%, tax delinquent records at 81%. Compare that to lists pulled straight from tax delinquent property records with no verification layer, stale numbers and dead emails come standard.
Predictive lists score homeowners on modeled likelihood of selling. That's a guess. A public-record filing, a lien, a bankruptcy petition, a pre-foreclosure notice, is a fact already on the books. That's why agents comparing PropStream alternatives keep gravitating toward vendors that verify against the county record instead of modeling 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 |
| Scored & owner-verified | Every record | Rarely |
Bankruptcy filing definitions vary by jurisdiction. The U.S. federal courts' bankruptcy basics page lays out how those filings become public record in the first place.
Agents already working Georgia distress signals can check coverage on the Georgia motivated seller leads page, or see how outreach gets handled on listing leads for realtors.
See exactly how a filing turns into a delivered lead on the how it works page.
See the flat $149/mo plan for the full dataset on the pricing page.