Tax sale lists, foreclosure notices, vacant building files. The public record shows trouble months before a listing does, if you know where to look. Nov 7, 2026 · @Jeff Stutzman The record moves first By the time a property is listed, the clock has usually been running for months. A county put it on a tax sale list. A lender's attorney published a foreclosure notice in the paper. A city inspector filed the building as vacant. Each of those is a public record, dated and free to read. The trouble is where they sit. Tax lists live with the county, notices with the newspaper and the auctioneer, vacant files with the city, environmental files with the EPA. None of them is organized by address, so almost nobody puts them together. That is the work PropertyFX does. It gathers those records, matches each one to the parcel it belongs to, and puts them on one page with the date and a link to where it came from. You look up an address, or a whole town, and the record speaks. Six signals wort...
Tax sale lists, foreclosure notices, vacant building files. The public record shows trouble months before a listing does, if you know where to look. Nov 7, 2026 · @Jeff Stutzman The record moves first By the time a property is listed, the clock has usually been running for months. A county put it on a tax sale list. A lender's attorney published a foreclosure notice in the paper. A city inspector filed the building as vacant. Each of those is a public record, dated and free to read. The trouble is where they sit. Tax lists live with the county, notices with the newspaper and the auctioneer, vacant files with the city, environmental files with the EPA. None of them is organized by address, so almost nobody puts them together. That is the work PropertyFX does. It gathers those records, matches each one to the parcel it belongs to, and puts them on one page with the date and a link to where it came from. You look up an address, or a whole town, and the record speaks. Six signals wort...