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Pre-Foreclosure

Kentucky is judicial: a lis pendens, then a Master Commissioner auction, with months of working time. The signal is a filed case.

Kentucky foreclosures go through the court: a lis pendens and complaint, then, if unanswered, a Master Commissioner schedules a public auction, advertised three weeks. We reach owners at the filing, with months of working time. Skip-traced, DNC-scrubbed, pulled fresh. Filter by county or ZIP across all 120 counties. $0.22 a row, $0.50 minimum, no subscription.

~1.9k
Active in KY
120
Counties
90+
Columns
$0.22
Per row
Sample record · Jefferson County, KY
Lis pendens filed
In litigation · owner on title
Property1234 Example Ave, Jefferson KY
Owner[sample record]
Estimated equity$128,300 · 46%
Mortgage / lender$149,700 · on file
Mobile · DNC clear(502) 555-0148
Illustrative sample · 90+ columns per real record
The Kentucky window

A judicial clock to the Master Commissioner sale

Kentucky foreclosures run through the court, with the sale handled by a Master Commissioner. Three public stages, and our list is the first, with months of working time.

Your list
Stage 1 · lis pendens
Case filed

The lender files a lis pendens and complaint in court. The owner has 20 days to respond. Owner still on title and reachable.

Stage 2 · master commissioner
Referred to sale

If unanswered, the court enters judgment and a Master Commissioner schedules a public auction, advertised three weeks. The owner is still on title.

Stage 3 · commissioner sale
Auction / REO

The Master Commissioner sells the property at auction, with a redemption right if it sells below two-thirds of appraised value. Often about six months start to finish.

Where it is concentrated

Kentucky pre-foreclosure, by county

Live active-inventory volume from our own data, pulled at order. Louisville (Jefferson) and Lexington (Fayette) lead. Pull any single county or combine several.

Jefferson
403
Fayette
266
Kenton
91
Boone
88
Hardin
65
Madison
50
Campbell
49

Leading counties by current inventory · live count shown before you pay · ~1,927 statewide

Inside the data

What lands in every Kentucky record

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

pre_foreclosure_kentucky.csv
Lis pendens filed
In litigation · owner on title
Property1234 Example Ave, Jefferson KY
Owner[sample record]
Estimated equity$128,300 · 46%
Mortgage balance$149,700
Years owned13
Mobile · DNC clear(502) 555-0148
Lis pendensDNC clearOwner found90+ cols
Reachability
70-80%

of records return at least one phone. Owner-occupied Kentucky 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.

lis_pendensequity %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 Kentucky county right now. Most services cache monthly snapshots; we query at order time. Major-metro recorders update same-week.

Pricing
$0.22 / row

Pay-as-you-go, no subscription required. You only pay for delivered rows, $0.50 minimum. Pull 50 Jefferson leads for a test 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 Kentucky pre-foreclosure

A Master-Commissioner judicial market

Kentucky judicial timelines give you months to reach the owner before the commissioner sale. Four buyer types work it four different ways.

Cash-buyer wholesalers

14-day-close wholesale

The core buyer. 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

Negotiate a discounted payoff with the lender on the owner behalf. Lower margin per deal, more deals per list.

Hard-money lenders

Bridge loan to cure

Lend enough to cure the default, take a first-lien position, refi out later. Low conversion, high ticket.

Defense attorneys

Foreclosure defense

Owners hit with a default notice are actively searching for help, and direct attorney outreach at this window converts well.

Best for

  • Wholesalers running Louisville and Lexington campaigns
  • Loss-mitigation and short-sale services during the case
  • Hard-money and bridge lenders on Kentucky equity
  • Foreclosure-defense attorneys answering a filed complaint

Not for

  • Post-sale REO or confirmed-sale tracking (owner already gone)
  • Buyers who need the case number, lis pendens date or sale date in the file
  • Anyone who wants a forced monthly subscription bundle
  • List-renters expecting exclusive, single-seat data
How Kentucky foreclosure works

The filed-lis-pendens signal, not a soft-proxy guess

Most "pre-foreclosure" lists are dressed-up proxies: 90+ days late plus high loan-to-value. Kentucky gives a clean court-filed signal, and we use it.

Judicial, Master Commissioner

Kentucky forecloses through the court, with the sale handled by a Master Commissioner, so the public signal is a filed lis pendens, not a recorded notice. Kentucky returns about 1,900 active, the order of magnitude of true litigation inventory, not a six-figure proxy dump.

Months to the sale

The owner has 20 days to respond, the court enters judgment, and the Master Commissioner advertises and sells the property, with a possible redemption right. The process often runs about six months.

Enriched, ready to dial

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

What we do not ship

The court-document detail (case number, lis pendens date, scheduled sale date) is not in the file. You get the flag, the owner, the equity picture, and the contact path, pulled fresh. Filings are public record, so we do not promise exclusivity.

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

Every other Kentucky pre-foreclosure tool makes you subscribe first

The tools usually recommended for Kentucky pre-foreclosure data are $50-100-a-month subscriptions, billed whether or not you pull a single list. We charge by the row, with an optional plan for high-volume teams.

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

Pull 50 Jefferson leads for a test campaign and pay eleven dollars. Pull 5,000 across Kentucky next month and pay for 5,000. Never pay for a month you didn't use.

Questions

Kentucky pre-foreclosure FAQ

The things Kentucky buyers actually ask before their first list.

Skip Trace Depot sells Kentucky pre-foreclosure lists pay-as-you-go: pick the state, a county, or a ZIP, see the live count, and pay $0.22 a row, $0.50 minimum, with no subscription. The list is the active pre-foreclosure cohort, owners with a lis pendens filed, skip-traced and DNC-scrubbed, 90+ columns per row.
About 1,900 across the state at the moment you order, concentrated in Louisville (Jefferson) and Lexington (Fayette). The exact live count for your county or ZIP is shown before you pay.
Judicial. Kentucky lenders must file a foreclosure case in court, and the sale is handled by a county Master Commissioner. A lis pendens is filed at the start, which is the signal our list is built on.
A Master Commissioner is a court officer who schedules and conducts the foreclosure auction after a judgment. The case begins with a lis pendens and complaint, which our list targets, well before the commissioner sale.
After the lis pendens and a 20-day response window, the court enters judgment and the Master Commissioner advertises and sells the property. The process often runs about six months, with a possible redemption right after a low sale.
By current inventory: Jefferson (Louisville) and Fayette (Lexington) lead, followed by Kenton and Boone in Northern Kentucky. You can pull any single county or combine several, and the live count is shown per geography before you pay.
Yes. Every record includes owner identity plus up to six phones and three emails, and every phone is checked against the Do-Not-Call registry before you download. You still own TCPA and Kentucky state-law compliance before dialing or texting.
$0.22 per delivered row pay-as-you-go, $0.50 minimum, no subscription required. Pull 50 leads for a test campaign and pay eleven dollars. If you run steady volume, an optional plan lowers the per-row rate.
Yes. Filter by state, county, or ZIP across all 120 Kentucky counties, see the available count for that exact geography, and pull only what you want.

Build your Kentucky pre-foreclosure list.

About 1,900 Kentucky owners in active foreclosure, skip-traced and DNC-scrubbed. Reach them before the commissioner sale, while they still hold the keys.

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