Frequently Asked Questions

No. Every foreclosure notice in ForeclosureLeads is collected directly from official county records, typically within 24–48 hours of the county making it available. We do not buy notices from data brokers or lead vendors.

The only information on the site that does not come straight from the county is the enriched property data and the skip trace contact information offered in some counties. Enriched data is explained in the next question, and skip trace has its own section below.

A foreclosure notice on its own is a dense legal document. It tells you a sale is scheduled, but rarely what the property is worth, who owns it today, or how much is owed. Getting from the notice to a decision usually means hours of digging through appraisal district, deed, and mortgage records.

Enriched data does that research for you, so you can decide in minutes whether a property is worth pursuing. For each notice with a street address we add the current owner and mailing address, whether the owner lives there or the property looks like a rental, the county tax value, the loan being foreclosed and its estimated balance, an equity estimate, and the number of recorded liens. A Property Card on each row goes deeper: building and lot details, assessed and estimated values, area rent levels, and the property’s mortgage, deed, and prior foreclosure history.

The notices themselves always come from the county. The enriched data comes from a licensed property-data provider that compiles public records, so values, balances, and equity are estimates and should be verified before you act on them.

Enriched data, and the skip trace feature that builds on it, is currently available in several of the largest Texas counties, including Bexar, Dallas, Harris, and Tarrant. Counties with enriched data are marked with a gold coin in the county list.

All foreclosure notice files can be downloaded individually by clicking on the file. Some counties, including Tarrant, Dallas, Travis, Bexar, and a few others, provide additional data from the foreclosure notice along with the notice file itself.

This data could include the filing date, document number, property address, or legal description. For these counties, the Export CSV button in the county view will export the additional data. However, most counties provide only the foreclosure notice documents. Using the Export CSV button for those counties will not produce meaningful results.

County websites vary widely in format. Some publish structured data, while others provide scanned PDFs, images, or inconsistently formatted pages. We use AI-assisted tools to help collect, parse, and normalize available information and to flag possible duplicates or inconsistencies.

That said, no automated system is perfect. Many filed notices skip certain data fields such as property address or loan balance. While interpreting a scanned image, AI can skip or misread a field, miss a record, or occasionally fill in information incorrectly.

That’s why our Terms of Service are explicit about this limitation: always verify records independently before acting on them.

Yes. In the notice list you can set up filters that include or exclude properties from the full set, for example owner type, equity, a city or ZIP code, or a lender, and save them under a name. Then create a notification for a saved filter, and we check it every day against the notices added since the last check. Whenever there is a match, you get one email listing how many new properties matched and in which counties.

You can have up to 5 notifications, pause or delete them at any time, and the Dashboard shows a yellow New Matches count for each county until you have viewed them. Members will find a step-by-step Dashboard Guide in their navigation.

Not necessarily. The results are people associated with the property address. They may be the owner, a family member, or a current or past tenant. When a person’s last name matches the owner on record, we mark it “owner name match.” Contact information comes from a third-party data provider and can be outdated or wrong, so it is not guaranteed.

Check the Property Signals section of the results for clues such as an absentee or entity owner, a 2–4 unit property, or no homestead exemption. These suggest a rental, where the people listed may be tenants.