probate-leads — launch kit

1-liner

Real-estate motivated-seller leads from county recorder + probate-court + FSBO scrapers. $0.50-5/lead.

Tweet hook

PropStream charges wholesalers $99-149/mo. Most leads are stale or wrong.

Direct county-recorder scraping = fresher data. Per-county scraper = the work.

Built the framework. Operator wires their target counties.

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Reddit

• r/realestateinvesting: "Direct county-recorder lead pipeline"
• r/wholesalehouses: "Skip PropStream — DIY this"

Cold-email ICP

Real-estate wholesalers, fix-and-flip operators, investor groups.

Cold-email template

Subject: fresher leads than PropStream for {their metro}

Hi {first} — saw your {wholesaling activity / mailing-list post}.

Direct county-recorder scraping gives you lis-pendens + probate filings
the day they file — vs PropStream's weekly aggregation. Per-county work.

I scrape Cook IL today; building Maricopa AZ + Harris TX next.
$499-2999/mo per county feed.

Want to chat about which counties to do next?

SEO content

1. "Probate + lis-pendens lead workflow"
2. "Why PropStream lags — and what's faster"

probate-leads

Real-estate motivated-seller lead-list builder. County recorder + probate-court + Craigslist FSBO scrapers + Qwen normalization. Sells to wholesalers and investor groups.

Pricing

• $0.50-5/lead at volume (operator sets per quality tier)
• Subscription $499-2,999/mo for a metro-area feed
• DFY custom for investor groups: 50/50 on closed deals OR retainer

Why this works

Real-estate investors pay $0.50-5/lead from PropStream / BatchLeads / ListSource. Quality varies wildly. Direct county-recorder scraping gives them fresher data at a fraction of the cost — the catch is each county is a custom integration, which is exactly what we sell.

Architecture

sources.py    per-county scrapers (probate, lis-pendens, FSBO)
   │
   ▼
normalize     deduplicate addresses, infer owner-of-record from raw data
   │
   ▼
enrich        property details + estimated equity (Zillow API or comps)
   │
   ▼
deliver       CSV / direct-to-CRM (Podio / REI BlackBook)

v0 ships the framework + 1 stubbed county. Per-county scraper wiring is the operator's commercial moat.

Run

cd C:\openclaw-products\probate-leads
python -m venv .venv
.\.venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -e .

probate lis-pendens --county "Cook" --state "IL" --out leads/cook-il-2026-04.csv

Roadmap

• Cook County, IL (probate + lis-pendens) — first county
• Maricopa County, AZ
• Harris County, TX
• Address-normalization (USPS deliverable)
• Equity estimation via comps
• Mailers integration (Lob.com)