Distressed Property Leads · Live
Pre-Foreclosure
Leads

By the time it hits the auction calendar, every investor in town has the address. We reach owners at the first default filing.

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Owners flagged in active pre-foreclosure: Notice of Default and lis pendens, the first public step toward losing the home, while they still control it and still have time to sell. Skip-traced, DNC-scrubbed, pulled fresh the moment you order. Pay-as-you-go by default. $0.22 a row, $0.50 minimum, no forced monthly subscription. Running volume? An optional plan drops your rate.

NOD + LP
Filing stage
50
States
90+
Columns
$0.22
Per row
Sample record · Los Angeles County
Pre-foreclosure flag
Active · owner still on title
Property1234 Example Ave, Los Angeles CA
Owner[sample record]
Estimated equity$212,400 · 48%
Mortgage / lender$229,600 · on file
Mobile · DNC clear(213) 555-0142
Illustrative sample · 90+ columns per real record
When to dial

Our list is the pre-auction window, before the bidding starts

Three windows, three different outreach plays. The list is the pre-foreclosure cohort; here is how the deal converts as the clock runs.

Your list
Stage 1 · pre-foreclosure
Default filed (NOD / lis pendens)

Owner still on title and reachable. Often still in denial, so loss-mitigation framing ("avoid a foreclosure on your record") converts better than a hard cash pitch.

Stage 2 · auction set
Sale date scheduled

Owner knows the gavel is coming. The wholesaler sweet spot: a clean 14-day cash close that clears the problem before the sale.

Stage 3 · owner gone
Auction / REO

Property sells or reverts to the bank. No owner left to negotiate with. You bid against the open market. Different game.

Inside the data

What lands in every record

Not just an address and a flag. A scored, contactable, deal-ready profile, 90+ columns per row.

pre_foreclosure_los-angeles-county.csv
Pre-foreclosure flag
Active · pre-auction · owner on title
Property1234 Example Ave, Los Angeles CA
Owner[sample record]
Estimated equity$212,400 · 48%
Mortgage balance$229,600
Years owned9
Mobile · DNC clear(213) 555-0142
NOD matchedDNC clearOwner found90+ cols
Reachability
70-80%

of records return at least one phone. Owner-occupied traces well.

Compliance

DNC-scrubbed

Every phone checked against the Do-Not-Call registry before you download.

Full profile

90+ columns per row

Owner identity, equity, mortgage, lender, distress flags, property detail, propensity scores.

pre_foreclosureequity %owner6 phones3 emailsAPNlast salevacanttax_delinquent
Freshness

Pulled at order, not a cached file

The live count you see before you pay is the count in your county right now. Most services cache monthly snapshots; we query at order time. CA, FL, TX and NY recorders update same-week, and smaller counties run on their own schedule.

Pricing
$0.22 / row

Pay-as-you-go, no subscription required. You only pay for delivered rows, $0.50 minimum. Pull 50 leads for a test campaign and pay eleven dollars.

Running steady volume? An optional subscription drops your per-row rate. Subscribe only when the volume makes it cheaper. See plans.

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Who works these leads

Pre-foreclosure converts hardest of any distress list

Wrong outreach pattern = blocklist and state-AG complaints. Right outreach = 7-day cash deals. Four buyer types work it four different ways.

Cash-buyer wholesalers

14-day-close wholesale

The bulk of the buyer base. Cash offer around 60-70% ARV, owner avoids a foreclosure on their credit report. Needs hard-money or private-capital backing.

Loss-mit specialists

Short-sale + DIL services

Negotiate a discounted payoff with the lender on the owner's behalf. Lower margin per deal, more deals per list. Many owners would rather keep their credit clean than take a quick cash sale.

Hard-money lenders

Bridge loan to cure

Lend enough to cure the default, take a first-lien position, refi out in 12-18 months. Low conversion, high ticket ($50-200k loan).

Defense attorneys

Legal representation

Some states allow strong defenses to stall or void a foreclosure. Owners hit with a default are actively searching, and direct attorney outreach at this window converts well.

Best for

  • Wholesalers running cash-offer, 14-day-close campaigns
  • Loss-mitigation, short-sale and deed-in-lieu services
  • Hard-money and bridge lenders sourcing cure-the-default deals
  • Foreclosure-defense attorneys in judicial states

Not for

  • Post-auction REO or trustee-sale tracking (owner already gone)
  • Buyers who need the exact filing date, default amount or auction date
  • Anyone who wants a forced monthly subscription bundle
  • List-renters expecting exclusive, single-seat data
Where this signal comes from

The default-stage signal, not a soft-proxy guess

Most "pre-foreclosure" lists are dressed-up proxies: 90+ days late plus a high loan-to-value, called distress. That flags half a county. The real default-stage signal is tight.

The actual default stage

Owners flagged in active pre-foreclosure: Notice of Default in non-judicial states, lis pendens in judicial ones. A real default-stage cohort, not a late-payment estimate. Los Angeles County returns about 4,900, the order of magnitude of true active filings, not the six-figure dump a soft proxy gives you.

This stage, not REO

Once a home is bank-owned, the owner is gone and there is no one to negotiate with. Pre-foreclosure is the only window to reach the person who still holds the keys.

Enriched, ready to dial

Owner identity, skip-traced phones and emails, estimated equity, mortgage balance and lender. 90+ columns, so you score a deal before you call.

What we don't ship

The court-document detail (exact filing date, default amount, auction date) is not in the file. You get the flag, the owner, the equity picture, and the contact path, pulled fresh at order. Filings are public record, so we do not promise exclusivity.

Pay-as-you-go, not a forced subscription

Every other pre-foreclosure tool makes you subscribe first

The tools usually recommended for pre-foreclosure leads are $50-100-a-month subscriptions, billed whether or not you pull a single list. We charge by the row, and keep an optional plan for high-volume teams who want a lower rate.

ToolPricing modelPay-as-you-go
PropStream~$99 / month
REDX~$50 / month
PropertyRadar~$50 / month
Skip Trace Depot$0.22 / row · plan optional

Pull 50 leads for a test campaign and pay eleven dollars. Pull 5,000 next month and pay for 5,000. Never pay for a month you didn't use. When you scale, an optional plan drops your per-row rate.

Questions

Pre-foreclosure FAQ

The things buyers actually ask before their first list.

Traditionally you dig through county recorder and court filings by hand, county by county. We aggregate the active pre-foreclosure cohort nationally, skip-trace the owners, and hand you a clean CSV. Pick your state, county, or ZIP, see the live count, and pay $0.22 a row, $0.50 minimum, no subscription required. Running steady volume? An optional plan lowers the per-row rate.
Pull the pre-foreclosure list for your market, skip-traced and DNC-scrubbed, then reach owners before the auction: loss-mitigation framing early in the window, a clean cash-close as the sale date nears. The list is the front of that pipeline; how you work it is the deal.
A lender records a Notice of Default after a borrower falls far enough behind on the mortgage, typically around 90-120 days past due. It is the first public, legally-filed step toward foreclosure, and it is the exact signal our pre-foreclosure list is built on.
It varies by state. Roughly a few months from the default filing to the auction in non-judicial states, longer where foreclosure runs through court. That whole window is when the owner is still on title and reachable, which is exactly the cohort we deliver.
Non-judicial states (CA, NV, TX, GA and others) use a Notice of Default recorded at the county recorder's office. Judicial states (FL, NY, NJ, IL, PA, OH and others) run foreclosure through court, where it shows up as a lis pendens. Same concept, different legal mechanism; our pre-foreclosure flag covers both.
Your list is pulled the moment you order, with a live count shown before you pay. The underlying default filings move on each county's own schedule, typically same-week in major-metro recorders with electronic docketing and slower in rural counties, so your pull reflects what's active when you order.
Industry estimates put new filings around 110-130k a month nationally, with roughly 350-450k active at any time (within ~180 days of filing). Volume is concentrated: CA, FL, TX, NY and IL produce most of it. The builder shows the live count for your exact geography before you pay.
Not as separate filters; we surface a single pre-foreclosure flag covering both. But since non-judicial states use NOD and judicial states use lis pendens, filtering by state effectively narrows by mechanism. Some operators focus on NOD states because non-judicial timelines are shorter and conversions tighter.
Roughly 75-85% of records return at least one phone, higher than baseline, because pre-foreclosure owners tend to be longer-tenured with established contact trails. Match rate is not right-party-contact: live-dial RPC follows the industry ~25% baseline. Every phone is DNC-checked before download.
Yes, but heavily state-regulated. California, Colorado, Maryland and others have "foreclosure consultant" laws governing what you can offer. We provide the data and DNC-scrub the phones; you ensure TCPA and state-law compliance before dialing or texting. Terms.
Out of scope for this list. We cover the pre-foreclosure window, owner still on title. Post-auction REO is a different upstream we don't currently run. Need it? Note it via the footer contact and we'll source it if there's real demand.
Pay-as-you-go at $0.22 a row is the default, no monthly commitment. If you pull lists every month, an optional subscription lowers your per-row rate the more you run. You're never forced into it: subscribe only when the volume makes it cheaper than PAYG.
$0.50 (about 2 rows at $0.22). No subscription required. CSV in minutes. Compare all lead lists.
Pre-foreclosure by state

Browse state-level pre-foreclosure lists

All 50 states, each built on that state's real filing volume and its own foreclosure law, judicial or non-judicial. Live counts are shown before you pay.

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Notice of Default + lis pendens owners, skip-traced and DNC-scrubbed. Reach them while they still hold the keys.

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