As a seasoned, birddog, wholesale, or just new real estate investor, you need all the tools of the trade you can get at your immediate disposal. One important piece of data to have as a real investor is the list of houses going into foreclosure.

But how do you get this list? Is there a fee? If there is a fee, is the fee worth it? And why do only the seasoned investors have these important lists?

I use to ask these questions of myself often. Along with how I could get realtor multiple listing access to run comparable’s (to determine a properties actual value) on properties, among other tools I needed to have.

When I found out that all I had to do was have a title or escrow company email the list to me daily, I was floored! And that is all you have to do too! I could not even believe it.  Sure enough, I called a tile company and they sent me daily foreclosure lists, free!

This is how you can do it.  Simply phone a local title company and ask to speak to their marketing representative. The title companie’s market rep is the person whose job it is to drum up more business.

The rep has a number of tools that are of help, which we can go into later. But in this context, really, all you need to do is call the rep, tell him or her you are buying and fixing houses and to have his people put you on the daily email list for foreclosures.

That’s it, its that simple.  If you run into a snag, call another title or escrow company, they will do it for you. Its one tactic they use to hustle up more business. Now once you get the list, take time over several days to become acquainted with the list, how to read it, what to look for, and be a student of real estate and it will pay you dividends.

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