Your ZIP. Your stake.
For cash buyers, flippers & acquisition teamsWe pull open code-enforcement and absentee-owner signals straight from city and county records in six live metros, skip-trace the owner's name, phone and mailing address, and email you the finished CSV. One buyer per ZIP, written into a ledger. No login, no credits, no dashboard.
No card. No subscription. One business day.
Illustrative filename — no customer was sent this exact file; yours is named for your own market. The row, the 3,702 count and the dataset are real, from the same 5 August 2026 Chicago pull as the sample rows below. Every figure on this page has a source and an as-of date logged in FIGURES.md.
What's in the data right now
Chicago properties picked up an open building-code violation in the 30 days to 6 Aug 2026.
data.cityofchicago.org · 22u3-xenr · violation_status = OPEN
in recorded liens across 1,440 Hillsborough County properties — median lien $38,500.
Hillsborough County code-enforcement records · verified 6 Aug 2026
buyers verified against county recorder deed transfers — not a marketing database.
Cook 23,971 · Maricopa 8,705 · Hillsborough 5,702 · 6 Aug 2026
median, from a Dallas code case being filed to it appearing in the city's API.
measured by us on 1,000 rows · 6 Aug 2026
These are counts, not estimates, and each one is a query you can run yourself. They were true on 6 August 2026 and they will be different tomorrow — that's the point. The query is printed next to every number on this page.
Pick your metro
Each panel below carries the dataset we pull, the filter we apply, the counts we measured, and one honest constraint. All six carry a constraint, printed right here. One of them we openly call our weakest.
City of Chicago, Illinois
Open Department of Buildings code violations, published same-day with a real filing date on every record. This is the deepest and freshest of the six, and it's where the sample rows below come from.
City of Dallas, Texas
Open Code Compliance cases filed through 311, same-day, with a genuine filing date. Dallas is the market where we can prove freshness with a number instead of an adjective.
Code Compliance / Code Concern - CCS and nothing more. Your opener has to ask what the case is about.City of Phoenix, Arizona
Unresolved Neighborhood Services property-maintenance cases, carrying the inspector's own complaint text on the row — the richest per-row detail of any of the six.
Hillsborough County, Florida
Active county code-enforcement cases, plus the thing that makes this market worth working: recorded liens with a dollar balance printed on them. We sell the Tampa metro on backlog, liens and mail — never on violation freshness.
DeKalb County, Georgia
Open county code-enforcement cases with same-day API visibility and the cleanest owner join of the six. Decatur, Tucker, Stone Mountain, Ellenwood, Lithonia, Clarkston, Chamblee — and the slice of Atlanta inside DeKalb.
City & County of San Francisco, California
Active Department of Building Inspection complaints, dated by filing. We're listing this metro with its problem in the headline because you should know before you buy, not after.
The receipt
Provenance is the product. Anyone can write "verified public-record signal" on a page. Only a vendor that actually goes to the county for its own records can print the dataset, the filter and the date beside the number — and then invite you to run it.
GET https://data.cityofchicago.org/resource/22u3-xenr.json ?$where=violation_status='OPEN' AND violation_date > '2026-07-07T00:00:00' &$select=address, violation_date, violation_type, violation_status
The delivered CSV carries the dataset and the pull date on every row, not just in a header. You can trace one line back to one filing.
Nothing on this page is undated. If a figure has no as-of date beside it, it doesn't ship.
The Tampa-metro constraint above is that promise being kept, in public, on the page that's trying to sell you Tampa.
What you actually get
Unedited rows from our Chicago pull dated 5 August 2026. Every address, date and violation type is exactly as the City of Chicago published it. Paste any address below into the city's own portal and you'll find the case.
| Signal | Date filed | Address | Issue | Status | Owner | Phone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VIOLATION | 2026-08-05 | 5407 S Maryland Ave | Conservation / Periodic | OPEN | ████████ ███████ | (███) ███-████ |
| VIOLATION | 2026-08-05 | 1908 S Carpenter St | Conservation / Complaint | OPEN | ████████ ███████ | (███) ███-████ |
| VIOLATION | 2026-08-05 | 5858 N Kenton Ave | Plumbing / Permit | OPEN | ████████ ███████ | (███) ███-████ |
| VIOLATION | 2026-08-05 | 1434 E 67th Pl | Conservation / Complaint | OPEN | ████████ ███████ | (███) ███-████ |
| VIOLATION | 2026-08-05 | 7053 S Dante Ave | Electrical / Complaint | OPEN | ████████ ███████ | (███) ███-████ |
| VIOLATION | 2026-08-05 | 4751 W Wrightwood Ave | Conservation / Complaint | OPEN | ████████ ███████ | (███) ███-████ |
The skip-traced owner name, mobile and mailing address, plus the absentee flag — sitting in exactly those two columns of your delivered file.
We black them out here rather than publish a named person's phone number on the open web. That isn't a paywall tease; it's the same rule we'd want applied to our own number. Ask for the free 25 and you'll see them filled in, for your own market.
22u3-xenr on data.cityofchicago.org, filtered to violation_status = OPEN, pulled 5 August 2026.
Why some rows are worth more
Every count below is a real intersection we ran, not an illustration. The whole reason we go to the county ourselves is that it makes these cross-references ours to run.
01 · one signal
An open code violation. One reason, one inspector, and an owner who still has options — fix it, ignore it, or sell.
991
Chicago properties picked one up in the 30 days to 6 Aug 2026.
02 · two signals
A violation that also has a hearing on the calendar. Now there's a date attached to it, and a date is a cost.
366
Chicago addresses carry both, right now.
03 · two signals + a balance
An open case plus a recorded lien with a dollar figure printed on it. The owner already knows what it costs to keep the house.
576
Hillsborough properties, median lien $38,500, $165,038,523 across all 1,440.
Freshness, measured
| Metro | Filing to visible in the source's API | How we know |
|---|---|---|
| Dallas | 0.97 days median · 57% within 1 day · 100% within 3 | measured on 1,000 rows, 6 Aug 2026 |
| Atlanta metro (DeKalb) | same day | newest case observed the day it was filed, 6 Aug 2026 |
| Chicago | ~2.3 days median | measured once, 6 Aug 2026 — re-measured monthly |
| San Francisco | 10.5 days | measured 6 Aug 2026 |
| Phoenix | no per-case filing date is published | so we never quote one for this metro |
| Tampa metro | not sold on freshness | the county's snapshot was last edited 22 Jun 2026 |
PropStream's own published material describes monthly-to-annual refresh cycles for its data. Ours is measured in days and we print the date we measured it. We're not claiming anyone is ninety days behind — we're claiming we can show our number, and they publish theirs.
Chicago and the ZIP-level figures are our own measurements, taken once. We re-run them monthly and change the date on this page when we do.
The other side of the trade
Because we build from recorded deeds rather than a marketing database, we can tell you who has genuinely closed in these counties and how recently. Nothing else in our competitive sweep — not the per-county vendors, not the big aggregators — ships a deed-verified buyer list alongside seller signals.
Cook 23,971 · Maricopa 8,705 · Hillsborough 5,702 · 32,196 outreach-eligible · 8,943 flagged absentee · as of 6 Aug 2026
How it works
01
ZIP or county, price range, property type. One conversation, once. On Starter, that's also the moment your ZIP goes into the Stake Ledger™.
02
We hit the city or county's own open-data endpoint, filter to open and unresolved cases, and dedupe against everything we have already sent you.
03
Name, mobile, mailing address, plus an absentee flag derived by comparing the mailing address to the property address.
04
CSV, or pushed straight into your dialer or CRM. No dashboard, no login, no credits to budget.
Where the hours go
Sourcing this yourself is a standing appointment with six municipal systems, each with its own login, its own export format and its own publication schedule — and none of them designed to be read against another. Downloading is the easy half. The half that eats an evening is the reconciliation: working out whether an address in the violations extract and an address in the hearings extract are the same parcel, then deciding what actually earns a call. That reconciliation is the labour we absorb. It happens on our machines, before the file is sent, deduped against everything you have already had from us, with the phone numbers already attached — so the first thing you do when the file lands is pick up the phone.
Hiring it out relocates the cost rather than removing it. A careful VA on this beat bills several times a Starter subscription every month; a careless one bills less and is dearer, because a filing nobody noticed never appears on an invoice.
| DeedStake | Per-county unlimited vendors | Big aggregators | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Territory | One buyer per ZIP, ledger-enforced | Unlimited buyers per county | Unlimited |
| Deliverable | Finished CSV, weekly, phones included | Dashboard seat | Dashboard seat |
| Provenance | Dataset ID, filter and pull date — on the page and on every row | Not published | Third-party aggregators |
| Freshness | Measured: 0.97d Dallas · same-day DeKalb · ~2.3d Chicago | Stated as "within days" | Published as monthly-to-annual |
| Guarantee | 60 days — close one deal or that period is free | None found | None found |
| Per-record comparison | Included in the subscription | — | $1.30–$1.80/record at a vendor selling the same county to a maximum of three buyers, phones extra |
Comparisons are drawn from vendors' own published pages as of 6 August 2026. We are describing published terms, not making claims about anyone's internal practice. One competitor's code-violation product is an outsourced third-party list its own marketplace page describes as "built by a third party" with "no specific details", priced $3–$390.40 and purchased twelve times.
What happens when you leave
Every row we have ever sent you stays yours — on your disk, in your CRM, in your dialer — whether you are still paying us or not. There is no vault to be locked out of, because we never put your leads in one: we email you a file. Cancelling stops the next file. It does not reach back and take the last one.
Every delivered row is written to a per-customer ledger keyed on your account, the property address and the signal type. That key is permanent: the same record is never delivered to you a second time and never counted against your cap a second time — not the month after, not the year after, not on renewal. You don't have to dedupe our files against each other, because we already did it.
The rule cuts both ways, and we say so out loud. If a property you already received later picks up a new, later-dated filing, that is a different key and a genuinely new record — it can be delivered, and it counts against that month's cap. We are de-duplicating records, not hiding a second event on a house you were already watching.
The rows we delivered to you are permanently retired: we will not sell or deliver them to a later customer, including whoever takes your ZIP after you. The fulfilment pipeline enforces that before it builds a file — when a ZIP changes hands, everything already delivered to the previous holder is suppressed from the new holder's list.
| ZIP | Metro | Buy box | Locked to |
|---|---|---|---|
| 60620 | Chicago, IL | SFR · ≤$250k | — open — Claim this ZIP → |
| 60636 | Chicago, IL | SFR · ≤$250k | — open — Claim this ZIP → |
| 33610 | Tampa metro, FL | SFR · any | — open — Claim this ZIP → |
| 85033 | Phoenix, AZ | SFR · ≤$400k | — open — Claim this ZIP → |
| 30032 | Atlanta metro, GA | SFR · any | — open — Claim this ZIP → |
Stake Ledger™ — live today
The Stake Ledger™ isn't a marketing promise — it's the ZIP-keyed file the fulfilment pipeline checks before it builds anybody's list. If a ZIP sits in it under your name, the pipeline will not build that ZIP for someone else.
A locked ZIP is locked. We're not a marketplace, and there's no second buyer in the same ZIP and buy box. Starter includes one exclusive ZIP. Pro is non-exclusive by default and can add a zone of up to five. DFY is exclusive by default. The unit is always a ZIP set — never a whole county.
Exclusivity is checked by the fulfilment pipeline against a customer-scoped ledger before any file is built, and every delivery is logged with a SHA-256 hash. It's a command that runs, not a sentence on a page.
No contracts. Cancel anytime. Start with 25 free leads — or the $99 Pilot: 100 skip-traced records, one time, no subscription. Every plan carries the 60-day guarantee: close one deal or that period's free. Starter includes one ZIP that's exclusively yours, with the phones already in it.
One ZIP code, exclusively yours. Everything we find in it — with the phones already in.
Full live distress-signal stack, skip-traced phones, absentee flags, up to three counties.
We run it for you — weekly pull, skip-trace, stacked dedupe, dedicated support. Built around your acquisitions team, fully exclusive.
Bigger than the free 25-lead sample, no subscription attached. A real pull for your exact ZIP or county and signal, delivered within one business day. Buy a subscription within 30 days and we credit the $99 against your first month.
Caps are real and printed. Nothing here says "unlimited". Extra records beyond your cap are quoted at $0.60/record and only ever delivered after you've agreed in writing.
Work the list we send you. If you don't close or credibly source at least one deal from it within 60 days of your first delivery, that period is free. The standard: a contact from your own delivered file showing up closed is the whole test. Monthly: we refund the actual dollars charged inside the window. Annual prepay: we refund the pro-rata value of the unused months, and the window applies to the first 60 days only. DFY Lead Ops: settled as a service credit against future work, not cash. The one condition: you actually contact the leads — an untouched CSV doesn't qualify.
This is written into our Terms of Service, not just onto this page. Go and read §5 before you buy anything.
The first 10 DeedStake accounts lock today's rate and today's package for life — the price, the record cap, the geography and the signals you sign on are yours even as we re-price and re-scope for new accounts. In exchange: a written testimonial and a referral intro once you've seen results. We're opening the first 4 now; the rest open as results come in.
No countdown. No fake counter. The honest scarcity is that the number is genuinely ten.
DeedStake is new. As of 6 August 2026 there are no customer quotes on this page, because there are no customers. You'd be among the first, which is exactly why the Founding Member terms exist. What we can show you is the data itself, and the person behind it.
had an open building-code violation filed against them in the 30 days ending 6 August 2026 — 3,702 individual violation records across 991 distinct addresses. Counted directly against the City of Chicago's open-data API (dataset 22u3-xenr, filter violation_status = OPEN) on 6 August 2026. This is a dated snapshot typed into the page by hand, not a live counter: run the same query yourself and you'll get today's number, which will be different.
I write the pipeline that hits the city endpoints, I run the skip-trace, I build your file, and I'm the one who answers [email protected]. There's no support desk and no sales floor. If the data is wrong, you're emailing the single person who can fix it — and I'd rather hear it than not.
The flip side of that: I'm not going to tell you a human replies within the hour, or that most customers close a deal in their first month. I have no basis for either claim. What I will commit to is that every row I send you came out of a public record you can go and check yourself, and that the 60-day guarantee above is written into the Terms of Service, not just onto a marketing page.
Tell us your market. We'll send a live, skip-traced sample — no card, no commitment.
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Skip these and we'll still send the 25. Answer them and we'll filter the file down to what you actually buy.
Questions
City and county public records. Today that's open code-enforcement and building-violation data in six metros, plus an absentee flag derived by comparing the owner's mailing address to the property address. Each row keeps the dataset it came from, so you can check it against the city's own portal. Probate and tax-delinquent are not live yet; when they land they're included at no extra charge.
A CSV, one row per property: signal, date (where the source publishes one), street address, city, state, the issue text from the record, case status, plus the skip-traced owner name, phone and mailing address and the absentee flag. It opens in Excel or Google Sheets and imports into a dialer or CRM without cleanup.
The records are public and lawfully sourced, but public data is not consent. Before you dial you own TCPA, National Do Not Call Registry and state telemarketing compliance. Live, manually dialled calls to a residential number must honour the DNC registry and stay inside 8am–9pm local time. Autodialled calls, prerecorded voice and text messages to mobile numbers need prior express written consent, which this data does not give you. Do not autodial or mass-text from it. The full version is in our Terms of Service, §2.3.
Every figure carries the date it was true and, where it comes from a public dataset, the dataset's ID and the filter we applied. Copy the query in the receipts section above and run it against the county's own portal. You will not get exactly our number, because time has passed — you'll get today's, which is the point. If a figure on this page ever fails that test, tell us and we'll take it down.
Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Phoenix, Hillsborough County FL (the Tampa metro, not the City of Tampa) and DeKalb County GA (part of the Atlanta metro, not the City of Atlanta). If your county isn't on that list, tell us which one it is and we'll check whether it publishes the records we need and quote you a date.
One buyer per ZIP code, tracked in the Stake Ledger™, which we'll read to you on a call. Starter includes one exclusive ZIP. Pro is non-exclusive by default and can add an Exclusive Zone of up to five ZIPs. DFY Lead Ops is exclusive by default. The unit is always a ZIP set, never a whole county.
Work the list we send you. If you don't close or credibly source at least one deal from it within 60 days of your first delivery, that period is free. Monthly plans are refunded in cash for the dollars charged inside the window. Annual prepay is refunded pro-rata for the unused months, and the window applies to the first 60 days only. DFY Lead Ops is settled as a service credit against future work rather than cash. The one condition: you actually contact the leads.
Starter and Pro files are rebuilt weekly. We measured filing-to-API visibility ourselves: Dallas 0.97 days median across 1,000 rows, DeKalb same-day, Chicago about 2.3 days. Phoenix and Hillsborough publish snapshots without a per-case filing date, so we never quote a filing date for those two — and Hillsborough's snapshot was last edited on 22 June 2026, so we never sell the Tampa metro on violation freshness at all.
No. There's no dashboard and no login. You get a spreadsheet by email, or we push it straight into your dialer or CRM.
Six metros live. One buyer per ZIP. Twenty-five free records pulled for your own market, with no card and no call required.