Upcoming Foreclosures

Who controls the national foreclosure database?

Where do sites like foreclosure.com and realtytrac.com get their foreclosure listing info? There are many of these sites that are pulling foreclosure data for thousands of counties/cities all over the country. Is there a few big companies that collect all these and sell the database to smaller companies?

Public Comments

1. There is NO SUCH THING. These companies sell monthly subscriptions to "foreclosures" that are notoriously out of date. Not a single investor uses those sites. It's best to do it the old fashioned way...watch the local paper, go down to the courthouse, and find the public notices. Another way to find them is to drive around a neighborhood that you are interested in living in...find houses that look abandoned and write down that address....generally, you will find that someone has either died or it's in foreclosure.