Like the police, it is a city or county department. They make sure that property owners follow the property maintenance code, which is a minimum set of rules that they need to follow to keep their property from becoming a problem for the neighborhood. They go on patrol and look into complaints from worried locals to find places that are causing trouble. These enforcement officers, like you, when you drive for dollars are in search of distressed homes.

Each week, we update. This is also true for the majority of other typical list data sources that investors prospect off of, such as pre-foreclosure, tax delinquency, probate, divorce, etc. Most clients arrive with the premise that you want the freshest data and nothing less. The only data science comparison of property sales records with code enforcement records has been carried out by us and published publicly. Although these studies take time and don't produce income, in all the places where we've conducted them, we have never noticed a boost in sales in the first few months after a new case is filed. Up until two to three years after the case is filed, the properties actually sell at a pretty steady rate until the rate starts to decline.