Over the weekend, created a tutorial video in which I performed a screen-scrape of the Broward County, Florida website.? The objective was to find the absentee owners of property in that county.? Shae Bynes, A fellow investor out of that area targets those who are absentee owners, so she was the beneficiary of this process.? Hopefully she’ll find some use of the list that was created.

The Broward County website was odd because it doesn’t let one view all of the properties within the county at once (no filters).? You are forced to select a filter to view anything.? So the most logical process that I could think of was to search via the owner “Name” field and by vowels.? Almost everyone has at least one vowel in their full name right?? Right.? So, I basically had 5 different lists one for A-E-I-O-and-U.? I then took those 5 different lists and pulled records out where the property PIN or “Folio” as BCPA calls it was unique.? Then lastly, I then took only the records where the “Mailing Address” field didn’t contain the letters “FL”, as in Florida.? Now that, I’m sure filtered out some legitimate leads as some street names contained FL and such, but I had to work with what that website would give me.

So check out the tutorial videos below and tell me what you think.? Soon, I’ll post another tutorial video of how I compiled a list of properties for the Tax Lien investor in preparation for the tax sale last month.

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