{"industry":{"id":"2ca8d285-89d2-418e-86a8-5f0d3639f767","slug":"real-estate-technology","label":"Real Estate Technology","description":"Property intelligence, investment, and proptech"},"topic":{"slug":"property-list-building","label":"Property List Building & Monitoring","description":"Building, stacking, prioritizing, and monitoring property lists from public-record criteria, seller signals, and predictive scores.","schemaKind":null},"answer":{"id":"3dd52e71-5a83-4421-bf72-65ed7611c44e","slug":"prioritize-off-market-property-list-before-outreach","question":"How should I prioritize an off-market property list before calling or mailing every owner?","answerMarkdown":"Prioritize an off-market list by scoring every record on four separate 0 to 3 scales, then work the resulting tiers in order. Property fit decides whether the parcel belongs in the campaign at all, contactability decides whether a call or a letter can reach the person named on the deed, timing evidence weighs dated filings against modeled scores, and evidence quality grades where the signal came from.[2] Keeping those four numbers separate matters because a blended motivation figure hides which input moved, and PropertyRadar's own announcement of its Likely Transactions scores quotes the company's CEO calling the product something that is not a crystal ball.[2] Order also has a price, since contact data is metered: PropertyRadar includes 250 phone and email contacts a month on its $119 Solo plan and bills 8 cents per contact past that ceiling, which puts a 4,000-record list appended in export order at $300 in overage.[1]","answerText":"Prioritize an off-market list by scoring every record on four separate 0 to 3 scales, then work the resulting tiers in order. Property fit decides whether the parcel belongs in the campaign at all, contactability decides whether a call or a letter can reach the person named on the deed, timing evidence weighs dated filings against modeled scores, and evidence quality grades where the signal came from.[2] Keeping those four numbers separate matters because a blended motivation figure hides which input moved, and PropertyRadar's own announcement of its Likely Transactions scores quotes the company's CEO calling the product something that is not a crystal ball.[2] Order also has a price, since contact data is metered: PropertyRadar includes 250 phone and email contacts a month on its $119 Solo plan and bills 8 cents per contact past that ceiling, which puts a 4,000-record list appended in export order at $300 in overage.[1]","answerHtml":"<p>Prioritize an off-market list by scoring every record on four separate 0 to 3 scales, then work the resulting tiers in order. Property fit decides whether the parcel belongs in the campaign at all, contactability decides whether a call or a letter can reach the person named on the deed, timing evidence weighs dated filings against modeled scores, and evidence quality grades where the signal came from.<a href=\"https://www.propertyradar.com/blog/propertyradar-likely-transactions\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[2]</a> Keeping those four numbers separate matters because a blended motivation figure hides which input moved, and PropertyRadar&#39;s own announcement of its Likely Transactions scores quotes the company&#39;s CEO calling the product something that is not a crystal ball.<a href=\"https://www.propertyradar.com/blog/propertyradar-likely-transactions\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[2]</a> Order also has a price, since contact data is metered: PropertyRadar includes 250 phone and email contacts a month on its $119 Solo plan and bills 8 cents per contact past that ceiling, which puts a 4,000-record list appended in export order at $300 in overage.<a href=\"https://www.propertyradar.com/pricing\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[1]</a></p>\n","summary":"Score every record on four separate 0 to 3 scales before anyone dials: property fit, timing evidence, contactability, evidence quality. This answer covers what each band means, why a blended motivation number hides the input that moved, and how three sample records fall into tiers.","publishedAt":"2026-08-20T14:45:00","verifiedAt":"2026-08-20T00:00:00","editorialStatus":"APPROVED","lastReviewedAt":"2026-08-20T00:00:00","nextReviewDueAt":"2026-11-20T00:00:00","templateVersion":"v2","aliases":["How do I rank an off-market property list before outreach?","What is the best way to prioritize a real estate lead list?","How should I sort a property list before cold calling owners?","Which off-market records should I call first?","How do I score property leads for motivation and reachability?","Should I dial straight down my property lead list?","How do I decide which owners to mail instead of call?","What is a scoring rubric for an off-market property list?","How often should I re-score a property list?","Is a high propensity to sell score enough to prioritize a lead?"],"confidenceScore":78,"confidenceLabel":"Medium","canonicalUrl":null},"contributor":{"id":"ec39deab-44fe-48d8-9029-fefe993ab85a","slug":"answer-stack","displayName":"AnswerStack","websiteUrl":null},"contributorOrganizationProfile":{"entityId":"ec39deab-44fe-48d8-9029-fefe993ab85a","legalName":null,"description":null,"websiteUrl":null,"imageUrl":null,"slogan":null,"subtitle":null,"facts":[],"coiNote":null,"foundingDate":null,"numberOfEmployeesText":null,"contactPoint":null,"address":null,"headquartersText":null,"organizationType":null},"contributorPerson":{"slug":"answerstack-editorial-team","displayName":"AnswerStack Editorial Team"},"sections":[{"id":"667fc36a-7b86-4e12-a17c-2de9399d918b","sectionKey":"how_a_prioritization_pass_works","sectionType":"markdown_section","heading":"How does a prioritization pass work?","introMarkdown":"Property fit is scored first because it is the only component that can remove a record outright. Everything else moves a record up or down the queue, so a parcel that fails the buy box never reaches the stage where somebody buys a phone number for it. Keep the four scores in four spreadsheet columns or four CRM fields, which is what makes a tier assignment explainable two weeks later.\n\n### What each of the four scales measures\n\n- Property fit measures the parcel against the written criteria that produced the list, and a 0 removes the record from the campaign.\n- Timing evidence measures whether a dated document says the owner is moving, so a modeled score with no filing behind it stays at a 1.[2]\n- Contactability measures whether a channel can carry a message to the owner of record this week, and a 0 sends the record to a mail or research queue.[3]\n- Evidence quality measures provenance, which keeps a high total from being assembled out of inferences.\n\nContact data is metered, which is the part of a top-to-bottom dial that shows up on an invoice. PropertyRadar includes 250 phone and email contacts a month on the $119 Solo plan, 500 on Team, and 2,500 on Business, then charges 8, 6, or 4 cents per contact past the ceiling.[1] A 4,000-record list appended in export order burns the Solo allowance sixteen times over before anyone asks which records deserved the call.\n\nA record with no working number and a modeled score of 91 produces no conversation this month at any price. Contactability and evidence quality therefore set the order more than any motivation label does, because reach and provenance can be checked today while a propensity band is a statement about the next six months.[2] A record scoring 12 out of 12 and a record scoring 6 both stay in the same campaign, since the lower one moves to Tier 3 rather than out of it.","introHtml":"<p>Property fit is scored first because it is the only component that can remove a record outright. Everything else moves a record up or down the queue, so a parcel that fails the buy box never reaches the stage where somebody buys a phone number for it. Keep the four scores in four spreadsheet columns or four CRM fields, which is what makes a tier assignment explainable two weeks later.</p>\n<h3>What each of the four scales measures</h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Property fit measures the parcel against the written criteria that produced the list, and a 0 removes the record from the campaign.</li>\n<li>Timing evidence measures whether a dated document says the owner is moving, so a modeled score with no filing behind it stays at a 1.<a href=\"https://www.propertyradar.com/blog/propertyradar-likely-transactions\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[2]</a></li>\n<li>Contactability measures whether a channel can carry a message to the owner of record this week, and a 0 sends the record to a mail or research queue.<a href=\"https://help.propertyradar.com/en/articles/5730803-using-the-property-and-owner-profile\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[3]</a></li>\n<li>Evidence quality measures provenance, which keeps a high total from being assembled out of inferences.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Contact data is metered, which is the part of a top-to-bottom dial that shows up on an invoice. PropertyRadar includes 250 phone and email contacts a month on the $119 Solo plan, 500 on Team, and 2,500 on Business, then charges 8, 6, or 4 cents per contact past the ceiling.<a href=\"https://www.propertyradar.com/pricing\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[1]</a> A 4,000-record list appended in export order burns the Solo allowance sixteen times over before anyone asks which records deserved the call.</p>\n<p>A record with no working number and a modeled score of 91 produces no conversation this month at any price. Contactability and evidence quality therefore set the order more than any motivation label does, because reach and provenance can be checked today while a propensity band is a statement about the next six months.<a href=\"https://www.propertyradar.com/blog/propertyradar-likely-transactions\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[2]</a> A record scoring 12 out of 12 and a record scoring 6 both stay in the same campaign, since the lower one moves to Tier 3 rather than out of it.</p>\n","outroMarkdown":null,"outroHtml":null,"contentJson":{},"configJson":{},"noteMarkdown":null,"noteHtml":null,"sortOrder":10},{"id":"45774217-7c3f-4df5-9e3d-abbbe536a28a","sectionKey":"scoring_rubric_table","sectionType":"table_section","heading":"What does each score mean on the four scales?","introMarkdown":"The table sets the 0 to 3 bands for all four components. A 3 always rests on a dated fact from a document, and a 1 always rests on an inference.","introHtml":"<p>The table sets the 0 to 3 bands for all four components. A 3 always rests on a dated fact from a document, and a 1 always rests on an inference.</p>\n","outroMarkdown":"A 3 on timing beside a 0 on contactability describes a research task for whoever handles skip tracing. A 3 on contactability beside a 1 on timing describes a call somebody can make today, which is why the four numbers stay on the row after the sum is calculated.","outroHtml":"<p>A 3 on timing beside a 0 on contactability describes a research task for whoever handles skip tracing. A 3 on contactability beside a 1 on timing describes a call somebody can make today, which is why the four numbers stay on the row after the sum is calculated.</p>\n","contentJson":{"rows":[{"cells":["Property fit","Outside the buy box on a fixed criterion, such as parcel type or market","Inside the market, wrong on one hard criterion such as unit count or year built","Matches the written criteria with one open question, usually condition","Matches every written criterion, including equity band and ownership type"]},{"cells":["Timing evidence","No dated event and no score above the model's low band","A modeled score in a high band with no dated event behind it [2]","One dated event older than 90 days, or a listing that expired this quarter","A recorded event or court filing dated inside the last 90 days [5]"]},{"cells":["Contactability","No phone and no deliverable mailing address on file","Deliverable mailing address only, no phone or email [9]","Landline or shared household number, plus a deliverable mailing address [7]","Active mobile tied to the owner of record, plus a deliverable mailing address [3]"]},{"cells":["Evidence quality","Source unknown, or a third-party field with no attribution","Modeled field, such as estimated equity or a propensity score [2]","Government-sourced field with a published lag, such as quarterly vacancy","Recorded document or court filing carrying a date and an instrument number [10]"]}],"columns":["Component","Scores 0","Scores 1","Scores 2","Scores 3"]},"configJson":{},"noteMarkdown":null,"noteHtml":null,"sortOrder":20},{"id":"bb56b52f-0a41-40d1-9918-71beac04046e","sectionKey":"property_fit","sectionType":"markdown_section","heading":"How do you score property fit against a written buy box?","introMarkdown":"Property fit is scored against the criteria already written into the search that produced the list. Running them a second time catches parcels that slipped a loose filter, such as a duplex counted inside a single-family pull. A record scoring 0 leaves the campaign, because a phone number for a property you would never buy costs the same 8 cents as one for a property that fits.[1]\n\nA deed recorded last week may not be searchable yet, which is how an ownership criterion goes stale. Harris County's real property portal tells filers a document can take 1 to 2 business days after processing to appear in a search inquiry, and the same page states the online database is not the official repository of real property records.[4]\n\nA record matching four criteria and a record matching one arrive in the same export with no marking between them. Filter strictness belongs in the fit column for that reason, since absentee ownership, high estimated equity, a vacancy flag, and tax delinquency stack differently depending on which criterion the search treated as required.","introHtml":"<p>Property fit is scored against the criteria already written into the search that produced the list. Running them a second time catches parcels that slipped a loose filter, such as a duplex counted inside a single-family pull. A record scoring 0 leaves the campaign, because a phone number for a property you would never buy costs the same 8 cents as one for a property that fits.<a href=\"https://www.propertyradar.com/pricing\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[1]</a></p>\n<p>A deed recorded last week may not be searchable yet, which is how an ownership criterion goes stale. Harris County&#39;s real property portal tells filers a document can take 1 to 2 business days after processing to appear in a search inquiry, and the same page states the online database is not the official repository of real property records.<a href=\"https://www.cclerk.hctx.net/applications/websearch/RP.aspx\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[4]</a></p>\n<p>A record matching four criteria and a record matching one arrive in the same export with no marking between them. Filter strictness belongs in the fit column for that reason, since absentee ownership, high estimated equity, a vacancy flag, and tax delinquency stack differently depending on which criterion the search treated as required.</p>\n","outroMarkdown":null,"outroHtml":null,"contentJson":{},"configJson":{},"noteMarkdown":null,"noteHtml":null,"sortOrder":30},{"id":"fee5138f-4134-4d4d-a56a-11ee6669f26b","sectionKey":"timing_evidence","sectionType":"markdown_section","heading":"What counts as timing evidence, and where does a modeled score fit?","introMarkdown":"Timing evidence scores highest when a dated document exists and lowest when the only input is a model's output. A recorded notice of default, a probate filing, or a listing that expired last month all carry dates somebody can check against a public index. Mecklenburg County's delinquent taxpayer list shows the shape of a 3, since each monthly release states the tax record date it reflects and names the owner shown as of the January 6, 2026 delinquent date.[5]\n\nPropertyRadar describes four forward-looking Likely Transactions signals, Likely to Sell among them, each a 0 to 100 score with bands from Very Low to Very High.[2] They estimate who is most likely to transact in the next six months, with every property rescored monthly, and they enter this column as one input and never as the column itself.[2] CEO Mark Hockridge is quoted on that page calling the product something that is not a crystal ball, so the score arrives carrying no date of its own.[2]\n\nSorting a whole list on that single axis lifts unreachable records to the top beside reachable ones. The same announcement describes customers filtering by score and sorting high to low to work the best opportunities first.[2] A modeled score sits at a 1 here and earns a 2 only when a dated event appears beside it.","introHtml":"<p>Timing evidence scores highest when a dated document exists and lowest when the only input is a model&#39;s output. A recorded notice of default, a probate filing, or a listing that expired last month all carry dates somebody can check against a public index. Mecklenburg County&#39;s delinquent taxpayer list shows the shape of a 3, since each monthly release states the tax record date it reflects and names the owner shown as of the January 6, 2026 delinquent date.<a href=\"https://tax.mecknc.gov/services/Delinquent-Taxpayer-Lists\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[5]</a></p>\n<p>PropertyRadar describes four forward-looking Likely Transactions signals, Likely to Sell among them, each a 0 to 100 score with bands from Very Low to Very High.<a href=\"https://www.propertyradar.com/blog/propertyradar-likely-transactions\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[2]</a> They estimate who is most likely to transact in the next six months, with every property rescored monthly, and they enter this column as one input and never as the column itself.<a href=\"https://www.propertyradar.com/blog/propertyradar-likely-transactions\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[2]</a> CEO Mark Hockridge is quoted on that page calling the product something that is not a crystal ball, so the score arrives carrying no date of its own.<a href=\"https://www.propertyradar.com/blog/propertyradar-likely-transactions\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[2]</a></p>\n<p>Sorting a whole list on that single axis lifts unreachable records to the top beside reachable ones. The same announcement describes customers filtering by score and sorting high to low to work the best opportunities first.<a href=\"https://www.propertyradar.com/blog/propertyradar-likely-transactions\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[2]</a> A modeled score sits at a 1 here and earns a 2 only when a dated event appears beside it.</p>\n","outroMarkdown":null,"outroHtml":null,"contentJson":{},"configJson":{},"noteMarkdown":null,"noteHtml":null,"sortOrder":40},{"id":"87564755-4ae6-452a-a79c-dd6135ad0879","sectionKey":"contactability","sectionType":"markdown_section","heading":"How should contactability be scored?","introMarkdown":"Contactability scores whether a specific channel can carry a message to the owner of record this week. An active mobile tied to the person named on the deed scores 3, a landline or a shared household number scores 2, a deliverable mailing address with no phone scores 1, and a record carrying neither scores 0. PropertyRadar marks the distinction inside its owner profile, where a green checkmark means the number is active and safe to call or text while a yellow triangle covers statuses including opted out, wrong person, disconnected, do not call, and blacklisted.[3]\n\nThe do-not-call status appears only once the user has accessed DNC data, and the blacklisted status only once a Blacklist Alliance account is connected.[3] An account with neither configured shows green checkmarks screened against nothing at all. Sellers using the National Do Not Call Registry must synchronize their calling lists with an updated registry at least every 31 days, so a list you scored in March cannot be dialed in June without another suppression pass.[6]\n\nCDC's National Health Interview Survey estimates that 78.7% of adults lived in wireless-only households during the second half of 2024.[7] A landline-only record scores lower on reach for that reason, and roughly 35 million numbers are disconnected and made available for reassignment each year according to the FCC order behind the Reassigned Numbers Database.[8] That churn alone can move a record from a 3 to a 0 between scoring passes.\n\nSan Bernardino County's Assessor-Recorder-Clerk states that mailing addresses come first from the Preliminary Change of Ownership Report filed with the recorded document.[9] The address stays in use until the owner signs a request to change it, which is why a record with a deliverable address and no phone stays in the campaign at a 1.[9]","introHtml":"<p>Contactability scores whether a specific channel can carry a message to the owner of record this week. An active mobile tied to the person named on the deed scores 3, a landline or a shared household number scores 2, a deliverable mailing address with no phone scores 1, and a record carrying neither scores 0. PropertyRadar marks the distinction inside its owner profile, where a green checkmark means the number is active and safe to call or text while a yellow triangle covers statuses including opted out, wrong person, disconnected, do not call, and blacklisted.<a href=\"https://help.propertyradar.com/en/articles/5730803-using-the-property-and-owner-profile\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[3]</a></p>\n<p>The do-not-call status appears only once the user has accessed DNC data, and the blacklisted status only once a Blacklist Alliance account is connected.<a href=\"https://help.propertyradar.com/en/articles/5730803-using-the-property-and-owner-profile\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[3]</a> An account with neither configured shows green checkmarks screened against nothing at all. Sellers using the National Do Not Call Registry must synchronize their calling lists with an updated registry at least every 31 days, so a list you scored in March cannot be dialed in June without another suppression pass.<a href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/qa-telemarketers-sellers-about-dnc-provisions-tsr\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[6]</a></p>\n<p>CDC&#39;s National Health Interview Survey estimates that 78.7% of adults lived in wireless-only households during the second half of 2024.<a href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/wireless202506.pdf\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[7]</a> A landline-only record scores lower on reach for that reason, and roughly 35 million numbers are disconnected and made available for reassignment each year according to the FCC order behind the Reassigned Numbers Database.<a href=\"https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-18-177A1.pdf\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[8]</a> That churn alone can move a record from a 3 to a 0 between scoring passes.</p>\n<p>San Bernardino County&#39;s Assessor-Recorder-Clerk states that mailing addresses come first from the Preliminary Change of Ownership Report filed with the recorded document.<a href=\"https://arc.sbcounty.gov/change-address/\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[9]</a> The address stays in use until the owner signs a request to change it, which is why a record with a deliverable address and no phone stays in the campaign at a 1.<a href=\"https://arc.sbcounty.gov/change-address/\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[9]</a></p>\n","outroMarkdown":null,"outroHtml":null,"contentJson":{},"configJson":{},"noteMarkdown":null,"noteHtml":null,"sortOrder":50},{"id":"b2b25b54-a531-4f5b-88c8-575d96263c58","sectionKey":"evidence_quality","sectionType":"markdown_section","heading":"Why does evidence quality get its own score?","introMarkdown":"A recorded document carrying an instrument number and a filing date sits at the top of this column. Government data with a published lag sits a step below, and modeled fields such as estimated equity sit below that. A third-party field with no attribution scores 0, since a number nobody can trace to a source cannot be re-checked when the owner disputes it on the phone.\n\nTexas requires a certificate of formation to name each initial manager, or each initial member where the company has no managers.[10] Delaware's LLC Act requires only the entity name and the registered agent's name and address.[11] A person named on a Texas filing scores a 3 here, and a name attached to a Delaware entity by a data provider scores a 1 until a document confirms it.\n\nEstimated equity is modeled from assessor values and recorded loan balances, so it scores a 1 even when the number looks precise. Grading provenance this way keeps a 12 out of 12 record from being built out of fields nobody can re-derive.","introHtml":"<p>A recorded document carrying an instrument number and a filing date sits at the top of this column. Government data with a published lag sits a step below, and modeled fields such as estimated equity sit below that. A third-party field with no attribution scores 0, since a number nobody can trace to a source cannot be re-checked when the owner disputes it on the phone.</p>\n<p>Texas requires a certificate of formation to name each initial manager, or each initial member where the company has no managers.<a href=\"https://www.sos.state.tx.us/corp/instructions/205.shtml\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[10]</a> Delaware&#39;s LLC Act requires only the entity name and the registered agent&#39;s name and address.<a href=\"https://delcode.delaware.gov/title6/c018/sc02/index.shtml\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[11]</a> A person named on a Texas filing scores a 3 here, and a name attached to a Delaware entity by a data provider scores a 1 until a document confirms it.</p>\n<p>Estimated equity is modeled from assessor values and recorded loan balances, so it scores a 1 even when the number looks precise. Grading provenance this way keeps a 12 out of 12 record from being built out of fields nobody can re-derive.</p>\n","outroMarkdown":null,"outroHtml":null,"contentJson":{},"configJson":{},"noteMarkdown":null,"noteHtml":null,"sortOrder":60},{"id":"6160a5a6-7b6d-4bbc-b801-2d4e023ed5d2","sectionKey":"sample_records_table","sectionType":"table_section","heading":"How do three sample records fall into tiers?","introMarkdown":"The three records below are invented, built to show how four scores combine rather than to report results from any market. A 0 on property fit removes a record and a 0 on contactability sends it to a mail or research queue, so both rules override the total before a tier is assigned.","introHtml":"<p>The three records below are invented, built to show how four scores combine rather than to report results from any market. A 0 on property fit removes a record and a 0 on contactability sends it to a mail or research queue, so both rules override the total before a tier is assigned.</p>\n","outroMarkdown":"A blended motivation score would rank the middle record first, because 88 sorts near the top of that column.[2] Its timing evidence and its evidence quality both score a 1 because no document supports the model's output, which drops it six points below the record whose owner answers a mobile and whose delinquency sits in a county file. Nothing there says the model is wrong, only that the record waits behind one carrying a filing date and a live number.","outroHtml":"<p>A blended motivation score would rank the middle record first, because 88 sorts near the top of that column.<a href=\"https://www.propertyradar.com/blog/propertyradar-likely-transactions\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[2]</a> Its timing evidence and its evidence quality both score a 1 because no document supports the model&#39;s output, which drops it six points below the record whose owner answers a mobile and whose delinquency sits in a county file. Nothing there says the model is wrong, only that the record waits behind one carrying a filing date and a live number.</p>\n","contentJson":{"rows":[{"cells":["Absentee-owned duplex in the target market, three years of recorded tax delinquency, active mobile on the owner","3","3","3","3","12","Tier 1, work this week"]},{"cells":["Owner-occupied ranch matching the buy box, Likely to Sell score of 88, one active landline, no dated event [2]","2","1","2","1","6","Tier 3, mail and monitor"]},{"cells":["Out-of-state LLC owner, vacancy flag from the last quarterly file, no phone, manager named in a state filing [10]","3","2","0","2","7","Research queue, no dial"]}],"columns":["Sample record (invented)","Property fit","Timing evidence","Contactability","Evidence quality","Total","Tier"]},"configJson":{},"noteMarkdown":null,"noteHtml":null,"sortOrder":70},{"id":"19b4bb02-4f18-4c0a-bea9-fd8b5611c8a0","sectionKey":"working_the_tiers","sectionType":"markdown_section","heading":"How do you work the tiers and keep them current?","introMarkdown":"Tier 1 gets worked to completion before Tier 2 opens, the discipline most easily lost when a fresh list lands mid-campaign. New records enter the same scoring pass as everything else and take their place by score, so an arrival holding a 6 waits behind an older record holding a 10.\n\nBuying phone numbers for all 4,000 records on the $119 Solo plan costs $300 in overage past the 250 included contacts.[1] Buying Tier 1 first spends the included allowance on records that already carry a dated event and a deliverable address, which turns a monthly allowance into a queue instead of a budget somebody drains in week one.\n\nPropertyRadar rescores every property on its Likely Transactions signals monthly, which is one reason a monthly interval is defensible.[2] A monitored list adds and removes properties as their criteria are re-evaluated and keeps a New Since count that can fire alerts or automations, with a ceiling of 10,000 monitored properties per list that add-ons cannot expand.[13]\n\nA phone status flipping from active to disconnected drops contactability by 3 points while the other columns hold.[8] An ownership change resets all four columns at once, which is why the monthly pass reads county filings before anything a vendor appended.[4]","introHtml":"<p>Tier 1 gets worked to completion before Tier 2 opens, the discipline most easily lost when a fresh list lands mid-campaign. New records enter the same scoring pass as everything else and take their place by score, so an arrival holding a 6 waits behind an older record holding a 10.</p>\n<p>Buying phone numbers for all 4,000 records on the $119 Solo plan costs $300 in overage past the 250 included contacts.<a href=\"https://www.propertyradar.com/pricing\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[1]</a> Buying Tier 1 first spends the included allowance on records that already carry a dated event and a deliverable address, which turns a monthly allowance into a queue instead of a budget somebody drains in week one.</p>\n<p>PropertyRadar rescores every property on its Likely Transactions signals monthly, which is one reason a monthly interval is defensible.<a href=\"https://www.propertyradar.com/blog/propertyradar-likely-transactions\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[2]</a> A monitored list adds and removes properties as their criteria are re-evaluated and keeps a New Since count that can fire alerts or automations, with a ceiling of 10,000 monitored properties per list that add-ons cannot expand.<a href=\"https://help.propertyradar.com/en/articles/5215475-monitoring-lists\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[13]</a></p>\n<p>A phone status flipping from active to disconnected drops contactability by 3 points while the other columns hold.<a href=\"https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-18-177A1.pdf\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[8]</a> An ownership change resets all four columns at once, which is why the monthly pass reads county filings before anything a vendor appended.<a href=\"https://www.cclerk.hctx.net/applications/websearch/RP.aspx\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[4]</a></p>\n","outroMarkdown":null,"outroHtml":null,"contentJson":{},"configJson":{},"noteMarkdown":null,"noteHtml":null,"sortOrder":80},{"id":"bf29f8a8-ac8c-4f77-a7f5-44639e693030","sectionKey":"trade_offs","sectionType":"markdown_section","heading":"What to watch when you run this rubric","introMarkdown":"- Four columns cost more time than one number, and a first pass over a 4,000-record list takes hours that pay back only where the append budget is capped.[1]\n- A rubric built on county data inherits county lag, since Harris County tells filers a document can take 1 to 2 business days after processing to appear in a search inquiry.[4]\n- The four scores decay at different speeds, since a recorded filing keeps its date while a phone status can flip between scoring passes.[8]\n- A green phone flag means less than it looks like when screening is unconfigured, since the do-not-call status appears only after DNC data is accessed.[3]\n- No conversion rate belongs in this rubric, because the tiers rank records by what is documented and reachable and nothing here predicts what share of any tier answers or signs.","introHtml":"<ul>\n<li>Four columns cost more time than one number, and a first pass over a 4,000-record list takes hours that pay back only where the append budget is capped.<a href=\"https://www.propertyradar.com/pricing\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[1]</a></li>\n<li>A rubric built on county data inherits county lag, since Harris County tells filers a document can take 1 to 2 business days after processing to appear in a search inquiry.<a href=\"https://www.cclerk.hctx.net/applications/websearch/RP.aspx\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[4]</a></li>\n<li>The four scores decay at different speeds, since a recorded filing keeps its date while a phone status can flip between scoring passes.<a href=\"https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-18-177A1.pdf\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[8]</a></li>\n<li>A green phone flag means less than it looks like when screening is unconfigured, since the do-not-call status appears only after DNC data is accessed.<a href=\"https://help.propertyradar.com/en/articles/5730803-using-the-property-and-owner-profile\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[3]</a></li>\n<li>No conversion rate belongs in this rubric, because the tiers rank records by what is documented and reachable and nothing here predicts what share of any tier answers or signs.</li>\n</ul>\n","outroMarkdown":null,"outroHtml":null,"contentJson":{},"configJson":{},"noteMarkdown":null,"noteHtml":null,"sortOrder":90},{"id":"bd0f65a2-b062-4b57-a5a4-e94a9108a2ac","sectionKey":"what_a_motivation_score_is_not","sectionType":"markdown_section","heading":"What a single motivation 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The score blends inputs that carry different confidence and decay at different speeds, so nobody can audit the number when it drops from 74 to 61.\n\nGoogle's machine learning course defines prediction bias as the difference between the mean of a model's predictions and the mean of the ground-truth labels.[12] A model trained on data where 5% of emails are spam should predict spam about 5% of the time on average, which is a statement about a population.[12] Averages of that kind describe the list, which makes any single high score a weak statement about one owner's plans.\n\nA BiggerPockets thread carries the title of dialing straight down a lead list, and the replies describe buckets by preforeclosure recency and by vacancy duration.[14] Forum practice is evidence that the ordering question is common, and it is not evidence about what converts.","introHtml":"<p>A single motivation score ranks records against each other and does not say which record to call first. The score blends inputs that carry different confidence and decay at different speeds, so nobody can audit the number when it drops from 74 to 61.</p>\n<p>Google&#39;s machine learning course defines prediction bias as the difference between the mean of a model&#39;s predictions and the mean of the ground-truth labels.<a href=\"https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/crash-course/classification/prediction-bias\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[12]</a> A model trained on data where 5% of emails are spam should predict spam about 5% of the time on average, which is a statement about a population.<a href=\"https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/crash-course/classification/prediction-bias\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[12]</a> Averages of that kind describe the list, which makes any single high score a weak statement about one owner&#39;s plans.</p>\n<p>A BiggerPockets thread carries the title of dialing straight down a lead list, and the replies describe buckets by preforeclosure recency and by vacancy duration.<a href=\"https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/93/topics/1285584-are-you-just-dialing-straight-down-your-lead-lists\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[14]</a> Forum practice is evidence that the ordering question is common, and it is not evidence about what converts.</p>\n","outroMarkdown":null,"outroHtml":null,"contentJson":{},"configJson":{},"noteMarkdown":null,"noteHtml":null,"sortOrder":100},{"id":"2fa0775a-207b-42e4-b3f8-03e3d1677946","sectionKey":"contributor_perspective","sectionType":"markdown_section","heading":"How this answer was researched","introMarkdown":"This answer was assembled from primary records and public documentation rather than from any vendor's recommendation. The scoring rubric is an editorial construct, built to keep four separate judgments visible on one row, and no company sponsored or reviewed it before publication.\n\nCounty material was read directly, including a county clerk's real property search portal and an assessor-recorder's published rule for how a mailing address of record is set.[4][9] Statutes and federal agency pages supplied the do-not-call synchronization requirement, the annual volume of reassigned numbers, and the gap between what Texas and Delaware require an LLC filing to disclose.[6][8][10][11]\n\nVendor documentation and pricing pages were read only for what each states about its own product.[1][2][3][13] An investor forum thread was read as evidence that the ordering question is common.[14] Practitioners who price, pull, or work these lists are invited to send corrections, and dated evidence that contradicts anything above will be reflected at the next review.","introHtml":"<p>This answer was assembled from primary records and public documentation rather than from any vendor&#39;s recommendation. The scoring rubric is an editorial construct, built to keep four separate judgments visible on one row, and no company sponsored or reviewed it before publication.</p>\n<p>County material was read directly, including a county clerk&#39;s real property search portal and an assessor-recorder&#39;s published rule for how a mailing address of record is set.<a href=\"https://www.cclerk.hctx.net/applications/websearch/RP.aspx\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[4]</a><a href=\"https://arc.sbcounty.gov/change-address/\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[9]</a> Statutes and federal agency pages supplied the do-not-call synchronization requirement, the annual volume of reassigned numbers, and the gap between what Texas and Delaware require an LLC filing to disclose.<a href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/qa-telemarketers-sellers-about-dnc-provisions-tsr\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[6]</a><a href=\"https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-18-177A1.pdf\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[8]</a><a href=\"https://www.sos.state.tx.us/corp/instructions/205.shtml\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[10]</a><a href=\"https://delcode.delaware.gov/title6/c018/sc02/index.shtml\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[11]</a></p>\n<p>Vendor documentation and pricing pages were read only for what each states about its own product.<a href=\"https://www.propertyradar.com/pricing\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[1]</a><a href=\"https://www.propertyradar.com/blog/propertyradar-likely-transactions\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[2]</a><a href=\"https://help.propertyradar.com/en/articles/5730803-using-the-property-and-owner-profile\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[3]</a><a href=\"https://help.propertyradar.com/en/articles/5215475-monitoring-lists\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[13]</a> An investor forum thread was read as evidence that the ordering question is common.<a href=\"https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/93/topics/1285584-are-you-just-dialing-straight-down-your-lead-lists\" class=\"citation-ref\" data-citation-index=\"14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">[14]</a> Practitioners who price, pull, or work these lists are invited to send corrections, and dated evidence that contradicts anything above will be reflected at the next review.</p>\n","outroMarkdown":null,"outroHtml":null,"contentJson":{},"configJson":{},"noteMarkdown":"This answer was written and reviewed by the AnswerStack Editorial Team, which has no commercial stake in the products, companies, or methods discussed. Every claim is cited inline and verified on the dates shown.","noteHtml":"<p>This answer was written and reviewed by the AnswerStack Editorial Team, which has no commercial stake in the products, companies, or methods discussed. Every claim is cited inline and verified on the dates shown.</p>\n","sortOrder":110}],"citations":[{"title":"Pricing","url":"https://www.propertyradar.com/pricing","excerpt":null,"quoteText":null,"sourceRole":"SUPPORTING","verifiedAt":"2026-08-26T00:00:00","supportsText":"Included monthly phone and email contact allowances of 250, 500, and 2,500 by plan, the $119 Solo price, and per-contact overage rates of 8, 6, and 4 cents.","domain":"propertyradar.com","publisherName":"PropertyRadar"},{"title":"Likely Transactions announcement","url":"https://www.propertyradar.com/blog/propertyradar-likely-transactions","excerpt":null,"quoteText":null,"sourceRole":"SUPPORTING","verifiedAt":"2026-08-26T00:00:00","supportsText":"Four forward-looking signals scored 0 to 100 with Very Low to Very High bands, a six-month transaction horizon, monthly rescoring, the sort-high-to-low workflow, and the CEO quote that the product is not a crystal 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This answer covers what each band supports, why base rates keep most high-band owners from selling, what to ask about calibration, and how a four-group holdout is designed.","url":"/q/how-to-use-likely-to-sell-scores"},{"id":"f2126891-1709-4d1f-a90f-70c3eaf705b5","slug":"monitored-property-lists-new-matches-owner-changes","question":"How can monitored property lists automatically surface new matches and owner-status changes?","publishedAt":"2026-08-25T16:05:00","confidenceScore":76,"confidenceLabel":"Medium","industry":{"id":"2ca8d285-89d2-418e-86a8-5f0d3639f767","slug":"real-estate-technology","label":"Real Estate Technology","description":"Property intelligence, investment, and proptech"},"topic":{"slug":"property-list-building","label":"Property List Building & Monitoring","description":"Building, stacking, prioritizing, and monitoring property lists from public-record criteria, seller signals, and predictive scores.","schemaKind":null},"contributor":{"id":"ec39deab-44fe-48d8-9029-fefe993ab85a","slug":"answer-stack","displayName":"AnswerStack","websiteUrl":null},"snippet":"Monitoring re-runs a saved search against the underlying records and fires on two documented triggers, new matches and status changes. Alerts arrive as a push, a daily digest, an immediate email, a Zapier action, or a webhook, and an automation can buy contact data against a metered allowance. Three limits bound the workflow: 10,000 properties per list, 10,000 to 50,000 properties per plan, and up to 30 minutes of delivery lag.","url":"/q/monitored-property-lists-new-matches-owner-changes"},{"id":"b63d1e21-ae69-4920-b224-6ee1f1675647","slug":"combine-absentee-equity-vacancy-tax-delinquency-filters","question":"How should I combine absentee ownership, equity, vacancy, and tax delinquency without creating an overly broad list?","publishedAt":"2026-08-18T16:20:00","confidenceScore":76,"confidenceLabel":"Medium","industry":{"id":"2ca8d285-89d2-418e-86a8-5f0d3639f767","slug":"real-estate-technology","label":"Real Estate Technology","description":"Property intelligence, investment, and proptech"},"topic":{"slug":"property-list-building","label":"Property List Building & Monitoring","description":"Building, stacking, prioritizing, and monitoring property lists from public-record criteria, seller signals, and predictive scores.","schemaKind":null},"contributor":{"id":"ec39deab-44fe-48d8-9029-fefe993ab85a","slug":"answer-stack","displayName":"AnswerStack","websiteUrl":null},"snippet":"A four-way AND across one county can leave a few dozen records while the same four filters joined with OR return nearly the whole absentee base. This answer covers what each field records, where AND belongs, where a segment split works better, and which exclusions to cut before anything mails.","url":"/q/combine-absentee-equity-vacancy-tax-delinquency-filters"},{"id":"1089a07c-c869-4d97-928c-0476ccef4554","slug":"property-and-owner-signals-motivated-sellers","question":"Which property and owner signals are most useful for identifying potentially motivated sellers?","publishedAt":"2026-08-17T13:05:00","confidenceScore":80,"confidenceLabel":"High","industry":{"id":"2ca8d285-89d2-418e-86a8-5f0d3639f767","slug":"real-estate-technology","label":"Real Estate Technology","description":"Property intelligence, investment, and proptech"},"topic":{"slug":"property-list-building","label":"Property List Building & Monitoring","description":"Building, stacking, prioritizing, and monitoring property lists from public-record criteria, seller signals, and predictive scores.","schemaKind":null},"contributor":{"id":"ec39deab-44fe-48d8-9029-fefe993ab85a","slug":"answer-stack","displayName":"AnswerStack","websiteUrl":null},"snippet":"Property and owner signals split into three tiers by where the evidence came from. Recorded and filed events carry a date and a named office. Modeled signals report an estimate about a house nobody has seen, and each one needs a measured result before it earns budget. Stated intent is the only tier that came from the owner, and the only one that can create a legal obligation.","url":"/q/property-and-owner-signals-motivated-sellers"}],"contributorStats":{"verifiedAnswers":269,"openDisputes":0},"schemaJson":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Question","name":"How should I prioritize an off-market property list before calling or mailing every owner?","text":"How should I prioritize an off-market property list before calling or mailing every owner?","url":"https://www.answerstack.io/q/prioritize-off-market-property-list-before-outreach","answerCount":1,"datePublished":"2026-08-20T14:45:00","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"AnswerStack Editorial Team","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"AnswerStack"},"url":"https://www.answerstack.io/contributors/answer-stack"},"about":[{"@type":"Thing","name":"Property List Building & Monitoring"},{"@type":"Thing","name":"Real Estate Technology"}],"acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Prioritize an off-market list by scoring every record on four separate 0 to 3 scales, then work the resulting tiers in order. 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