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Thanks pkowen, which county do you work for? Do you know whether there is a way to get a complete dump of ownership data from a county? Probably varies by county.

Good point about the title companies. They are probably a better source of data than the counties, but then again, they are in business and don't give away data. Do the counties have any relationship with the title companies?

I've heard of DeWitt. I bet it's quite a lot like Chelsea. Chelsea is actually pretty nice, but I'm in love with California.

Patrick, yes you can get a dump but it isn't free (in my County). How do I email you offline ? I clicked email and it didn't seem to work. Fills the from but I don't see your 'to' address.
-Pete

My email is p@patrick.net

The email link above each comment is to mail that comment to someone. How could make that clearer? Maybe "email this" instead of just "email"?

How can we get notified when it sells, if ever? Or get a notification that it didn’t sell by a certain date? Is there some service for that, or should I try to start it myself?

As someone already said, redfin does a pretty good job. You can add it to your favorites, when the status changes(like getting in contract), they send an update to your email. But, again, they cover very few areas.

You can also use propertyshark, which is very good, they get county data and present it in a very nice way.

I posted this over a month ago - now it's been reduced. Listed as "On Redfin: 3 days" right now @ $425,000. The price reduction is not shown, and if you hdan't already lookd you'd think it was just listed.
Lying liars.

Yeah... for kicks I sign up for updates on many properties on Trulia, Redfin, realtor.com I've seen the realtors play tricks like take it off the market a few weeks after it's been sitting on the market for hundreds and hundreds of days. Then they will relist it and it will say it was just listed.

Too bad the average "Joe" doesn't understand the tricks realtors play. Still lots of room to fall. Still LOTS of foreclosures to come.