Terms of Service — DeedStake

1.Who these terms cover

"DeedStake", "we" and "us" mean the DeedStake service and the person who operates it. "You" means the individual or business that requests, receives, buys or subscribes to data from us. "The Data" means any list, file, spreadsheet, export or feed of property signals and owner contact information we deliver to you — free samples included.

By requesting a free sample, buying a one-time pull, or starting a subscription, you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, don't use the Data.

Payments are processed by Polar as Merchant of Record (see §7). Polar's own terms cover the payment transaction itself; these terms cover the Data.

2.Your licence to use the Data

These six clauses are the whole deal on how the Data may be used. They also flow down obligations our own data providers place on us, so they are not negotiable.

2.1 Permissible purpose; lawful use only

You may use the Data delivered under this Agreement only for your own internal business purposes, to lawfully market or provide your own services to the property owner identified in each record. You may not use the Data to make an eligibility decision about any person — for credit, insurance, employment, tenant screening, or a similar purpose. The Data is not a "consumer report" and may not be used as one. You are solely responsible for determining that your specific use of the Data is lawful.

2.2 No re-redistribution, no resale

The Data is licensed to you for your own use only. You may not sell, sublicense, share, publish, broker, or otherwise redistribute the Data — in whole, in part, raw, or combined with other data — to any other person or company, for a fee or for free. This license is non-transferable.

2.3 The Data is not consent; you own calling-law compliance

The Data is compiled from public records and licensed third-party sources. It does not include, constitute, or evidence any person's consent to be called, texted, or otherwise contacted for marketing purposes. Before contacting anyone using the Data, you are solely responsible for complying with all applicable law, including the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), the FTC's Telemarketing Sales Rule / National Do Not Call Registry, applicable state telemarketing laws, and CAN-SPAM. Specifically: (a) live, manually-dialed calls to a residential number must honor the National DNC Registry and occur only 8am–9pm in the recipient's local time; (b) any autodialed call, prerecorded/artificial-voice call, or text message to a mobile number requires the recipient's prior express written consent, which this Data does not provide. Do not autodial or mass-text from this Data.

2.4 Honor suppression and opt-out requests

If you receive a request — directly, or forwarded by us — from someone on the Data asking not to be contacted, you must honor it immediately and add them to your own internal do-not-contact list.

If someone contacts [email protected] asking not to be contacted, we suppress them from future deliveries and forward the request to any subscriber who already received that record.

2.5 Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless DeedStake and its data providers from any claim, fine, penalty, or liability (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your use of the Data, including any violation of the TCPA, state telemarketing law, or this Agreement.

2.6 Third-party beneficiary

Our data providers (including BatchData) are intended third-party beneficiaries of Clauses 2.1–2.5 and may enforce them directly against you.

The one-line version: use it yourself, market lawfully, don't resell it, don't autodial or mass-text off it, and honor anyone who asks you to stop.

3.Where the Data comes from

Two layers, and we're specific about which is which.

Public-record distress signals. The signal itself — the distressed address, the issue, the date, the status — comes from city and county open-data records. Live today: building/housing code-violation records. Probate and tax-delinquent sources are scaffolded but not yet wired; when they go live they're included at no extra charge on your existing plan.
Licensed skip-trace enrichment. Owner name, phone number and mailing address are not in the public record we pull — they're added afterwards through a licensed third-party skip-trace provider. The absentee flag is derived at that step by comparing the owner's mailing address to the property address; if they differ, we flag the owner absentee.

Records are de-duplicated by address and checked against a delivered-lead ledger so the same property isn't shipped to you twice, and each record carries a freshness score based on the signal date.

Where a public dataset backs a figure we publish on our marketing pages, we print the dataset's identifier, the filter we applied and the date we pulled it, so you can re-run it yourself against the source.

What we do not claim

We do not represent that any record has been scrubbed against the National Do Not Call Registry, against a state do-not-call list, or against any known-TCPA-litigator list. Scrubbing before you dial is your job (§2.3).
We don't guarantee a phone number is current, correct, or reachable, that an owner wants to sell, or that any record produces a deal. Skip-trace matching is probabilistic.
We never call, text, or email property owners on your behalf, and we don't write, review, approve or audit your call scripts. You run your own outreach.

4.Plans, volume caps and extra records

Each subscription tier includes a monthly cap on delivered records. DeedStake is a push service — we build and send your file; you don't query, pull or request records yourself. Because of that, you cannot exceed your cap by accident and you are never automatically metered.

Tier	Included records / month	Included geography
Starter — $149/mo or $1,490/yr	250 records	1 ZIP, exclusive to you
Pro — $399/mo or $3,990/yr	650 records	Up to 3 counties (non-exclusive unless you add Exclusive Zone)
DFY Lead Ops — $1,200–$1,800/mo, scope-banded (ceiling $2,500/mo)	1,500 / 2,500 / 3,500 records, banded to the price you're quoted	Bespoke, fully exclusive

We deliver up to your cap. Records are score-ranked, so you receive the strongest signals first; anything beyond the cap in a given month is held, not billed.
No automatic metering, ever. We will never add records to your bill because volume was available. There is no meter running on your account.
Extra records only by agreed order. If you want more than your cap in a given month, we quote them at $0.60 per record and deliver only after you've agreed in writing (email is fine). No agreed order, no charge.
Near your cap? If your deliveries sit at or near your cap for two months running, we'll contact you about moving to the tier that fits. That is a conversation — never a bill change made on your behalf.
One-time purchases (the $99 Pilot at up to 100 records, the $650 DFY Proof Pull at up to 200 records, and per-record pulls) are capped by their own stated scope and have no monthly cap.

Exclusivity is sold by ZIP code, never by county. Starter includes one exclusive ZIP at no extra charge. On Pro, Exclusive Zone is an add-on covering up to five ZIP codes (+$400/mo or +$4,000/yr, plus $75/mo for each additional ZIP beyond five). It is included at no extra charge on DFY Lead Ops. While a ZIP + buy-box combination is reserved to you, we don't sell that combination to another buyer. That reservation survives your departure: any record we have delivered to you is permanently retired — we will not deliver or sell it to any later customer, even after your subscription ends. A new, later-dated signal on a previously delivered address is a new record.

Reservations are recorded in the ZIP-keyed exclusivity ledger we call the Stake Ledger™, and the fulfilment pipeline checks it before any file is built. We will read the relevant entries to you on request.

5.The 60-day guarantee

Close one deal in 60 days, or that period is free. Here are the exact mechanics, stated up front rather than improvised later.

What counts as "closed or credibly sourced": the seller contact appears in your own delivered list from us. That's the whole test — no other fine print.
The window: 60 days from your first delivery.
What you get back — monthly subscribers: the actual dollars charged inside that 60-day window are refunded — not a forward credit on a future invoice. In practice that's usually one month's charge, occasionally two.
What you get back — annual prepay: we refund the pro-rata value of the unused months of your term, and the guarantee window applies to the first 60 days only — it does not re-open later in the year.
What you get back — DFY Lead Ops: the guarantee on Lead Ops is settled as a service credit against future Lead Ops work, not a cash refund. We credit that period's work toward your next scope rather than billing it twice.
The one condition: you actually work the list we send you. The guarantee covers investors who call, mail or otherwise contact the leads — not an untouched CSV.
Scope: the guarantee applies to Starter, Pro and DFY Lead Ops subscriptions only. One-time SKUs (per-record pulls, the $99 Pilot, the DFY Proof Pull) have no billing "period" to refund and are priced low enough to try on their own merits.

To invoke it, email [email protected] before day 60 ends.

6.The freshness SLA, and never paying for the same record twice

Two commitments about the data itself, both mechanical rather than editorial. §5 is about the outcome you get; this section is about the file you get. Read §6.3 before you rely on any of it — the exclusions are real and we list them up front rather than in a footnote.

6.1 The per-delivery receipt

Every file we deliver carries, on every row: the source identifier, the publisher's own dataset identifier, a summary of the exact filter we ran, the date of the newest record in that source at the moment of the pull, and the timestamp of the pull. Those five fields are the receipt. They are printed so that you can take any row back to the publisher's own endpoint and re-run it yourself.

Freshness is always measured as the newest actual record returned live by the source endpoint. A portal's "last updated" metadata is never used, because that timestamp reports edits to the listing rather than refreshes of the data — a dataset can have its page touched years after its last row.

6.2 The freshness service level — named sources, named metros

For each source named in the table below we publish a staleness threshold. If we build and deliver your file from a covered source on a day when that source's newest record is older than its stated threshold, that week is credited to your account automatically. We report it to you; you do not have to notice it, claim it, or ask for it.

Metro	Signal	Source identifier	Stale after
Chicago	Code violation	`chicago_code_violations`	7 days
Chicago	Vacant building (311)	`chicago_311_vacant_buildings`	5 days
Dallas	Code violation	`dallas_code_violations`	5 days
Atlanta metro (DeKalb)	Code violation	`dekalb_code_cases`	7 days
Tampa metro (Hillsborough)	Probate	`hillsborough_probate`	6 days
Tampa metro (Hillsborough)	Pre-foreclosure	`hillsborough_civil_foreclosure`	4 days
Tampa metro (Hillsborough)	Eviction	`hillsborough_civil_eviction`	4 days

The remedy is a service credit against your account, never cash. A stale week is credited at that week's share of your subscription and is applied to your next invoice. The 60-day guarantee in §5 is the only mechanism on this site that returns money; this one does not. Sources are added to this table only after they have been measured, and a source can be removed from it by amendment on notice under §8.

6.3 What the SLA does not cover

The service level in §6.2 applies only to the sources named in its table, and does not apply to: (a) Phoenix, where the published layer carries no per-case date field of any kind, so there is nothing to measure and we never quote a freshness figure for that metro; (b) Hillsborough County code-enforcement cases, which are republished by the county as a periodic snapshot rather than a live feed — that source is delivered and receipted but is not sold or credited on freshness; (c) San Francisco, which is live in the pipeline and carries a receipt like every other source but sits outside this service level; (d) any period in which the publisher's own endpoint is unavailable, rate-limited, restructured, or has ceased publishing, and any event outside our reasonable control. A county-side outage is not a breach of this clause; we will tell you it happened and no credit accrues.

Freshness is not accuracy, and this clause never becomes a warranty of either. §6.2 is a commitment about the age of records. It says nothing about whether a skip-traced phone number is current or correct, whether an owner wants to sell, or whether any record produces a deal — §3 governs all of that and is unchanged by this section.

6.4 Never paying for the same record twice

A delivered record's identity is sha1(your customer id + the property address + the signal type), lower-cased and whitespace-collapsed. Once that key is written to your delivered-lead ledger, that record is never delivered to you again and never counted against your cap again — in any later week, any later month, for as long as you are a customer. This is permanent and per-customer; it does not reset on renewal, on a plan change, or at the start of a month.

A newly-cited property is a new record. If an address you have already received later picks up a new, later-dated signal, that is a different key: it is a new record, it may be delivered to you, and it counts against your cap in the month it is delivered. A new violation on an old address is a new lead, not a duplicate.

The credit rule. If we deliver you a record you have already received and it counts against your cap, tell us and we will credit those records back to that month's cap and repair the key in the ledger. The remedy is expressed in records, not in money.

Retirement in the other direction — records already delivered to you never being handed to a later holder of your ZIP — is covered by §4 and survives the end of your subscription. The fulfilment pipeline enforces it before it builds a file: when a ZIP changes hands, every record already delivered to that ZIP's former holder is suppressed from the new holder's deliveries.

The one-line version: the file tells you where every row came from and how old it was; on the named sources a stale week credits itself; and a record you have already had is never sold to you again, or to whoever holds your ZIP after you.

7.Payments, billing and cancellation

Polar is the Merchant of Record. Polar is the seller of record for card payments, charges your card, handles applicable sales tax, and issues your invoice. Card details are handled by Polar and its payment processor — we never see or store them.
All prices are in USD. Subscriptions renew automatically at the interval you chose (monthly or annual) until cancelled.
Cancel any time from the manage-subscription link in your receipt email. Cancellation stops future renewals; you keep access for the period you've already paid for.
Outside the 60-day guarantee (§5), paid periods already delivered are non-refundable.
Setup fees, where they apply, are one-time and stated before you pay.
If a payment fails or an account goes unpaid, we may pause deliveries until it's resolved.

8.Delivery, availability and changes

Weekly-tier deliveries go out on a weekly cadence; DFY cadence is set in your scope. Record counts vary week to week with what the county actually publishes — a quiet week is a real thing, not a service failure.
Coverage expands by request. If your county isn't wired yet, ask — but until a source is live for it we won't invoice you as though it were.
We may change these terms; the "last updated" date at the top always reflects the current version. If a change materially affects an active subscription, we'll tell you by email before it applies to you.
Either side can end the relationship: you by cancelling, us by giving notice and refunding any unused prepaid period.

9.Contact

Questions about these terms, a suppression request, or a guarantee claim: [email protected]. A human replies — Victor himself, usually within one business day.