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2011 Mar 4, 3:44am 1,909 views 4 comments
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FortWayne
2011 Mar 4, 6:20am
you can try the county assessor, but I think it costs a bit more. Although if you walk in I believe you can get any record for 15c or something like that. Not sure if they still do that.
http://assessor.lacounty.gov/extranet/Outsidesales/online.aspx
Mark_LA
2011 Mar 4, 6:52am
you can try the county assessor, but I think it costs a bit more. Although if you walk in I believe you can get any record for 15c or something like that. Not sure if they still do that.
http://assessor.lacounty.gov/extranet/Outsidesales/online.aspx
That's probably where propertyshark gets the entire county of L.A. data for ~$13k + tax, it's more of a bulk data service they offer, not meant for the average joe. I don't have time to walk in for every single property that I'm researching.
I want to see how much equity (of lack of) a seller has, the type of loan, etc before potentially submitting offers. No point submitting offers to someone with negative equity who has a toxic option-arm loan that just recast....it's better to wait for the bank to foreclose on them...and I can even track the actual NODs and foreclosure documents as well.
I can get that info from Propertyshark via PDF files of the actual documents, but it's a little spotty for very recent stuff and not available for any documents filed prior to January 2005 (in L.A. County at least--don't know about other areas they service).
Does RealtyTrac or ForeclosureRadar offer these documents for a flat monthly fee?
It's like Fort Knox down there at the LA Recorders office. Heck, even Marin County puts their indexes online so you can at least see if a NOD has been filed. Pretty addictive, ain't it. Ducky subscribes to ForeclosureRadar, so he can fill you in on the details. I pull free data from RealtyTrac maps and then figure out the house number from the square footage on Zillow. Redfin then gives you APNs to correlate to County Recorder's data.
FortWayne
2011 Mar 4, 7:45am
Sorry Mark, for residential RE all I know is county assessor walk in method. If someone does have a better way please do post it if you can.
Is there any other service other than PropertyShark.com that has the public records scanned for Los Angeles County? They offer the service for only $15/month, but they only have records back to January 2005.
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