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The home you actually want was never listed.

“The typical American homeowner now stays in the same house for nearly 12 years, close to double the tenure of 2005.”

Redfin, homeowner tenure analysis · inventory near record lows

Point it at any neighborhood and Home Prospector analyzes tens of thousands of homes in minutes: it reads the county assessor rolls, scores every home 0 to 100 on how likely the owner is to sell, and preps a warm, respectful first letter for the standouts. Homes change hands when life changes: retirement, probate, a tired landlord, a move across the country. Those changes leave fingerprints in public records years before a sign goes up. The best houses go to the buyers who knock first.

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Free account · no card required · sibling of Business Prospector

The funnel

Free public records find every home.
Deep AI is spent only on the best.

01

Map every home

Pick any neighborhood. Prospector pulls every residential parcel from county assessor records, with owner mailing addresses, assessed values, and sizes, and banks them forever. Tens of thousands of homes analyzed in minutes.

cost per home: ~$0
02

Score every home

Every parcel gets a 0 to 100 sell-propensity score from a dozen public signals: tenure, absentee ownership, trusts and estates, exemptions, dated structures. Fresh buyers and institutions get filtered out.

cost per home: ~$0
03

Deep-dive the best

Top candidates get the full treatment: property records providers pull owner names, sale history, and value estimates, then AI writes an honest dossier with a sell-likelihood and the angle for a first contact.

spent only on winners
04

Write the letter

A warm, specific, low-pressure letter to the owner, drafted from the dossier in your voice. You print it, sign it, and mail it yourself. Nothing ever goes out without your hands on it.

your letter, your stamp

The signals

What a motivated seller looks like in the public record

Ownership tenure

The strongest signal there is. Twenty-plus years in the same house means deep equity, empty bedrooms, and a life-stage change somewhere ahead.

Absentee & out-of-state owners

When the tax bill mails to another city or another state, the emotional tie is already gone. Remote landlords are the first to say yes.

Trusts & estates

A living trust on title means the estate plan is written. An estate or heirs on title means the decision is already being made, just not by the person who lived there.

Exemptions & care-of lines

Senior and hardship tax deferrals, and tax bills addressed in care of someone else, mark owners whose affairs are already in transition.

Dated structure, valuable dirt

When the improvements are assessed at a fraction of the land underneath them, the house is really a land holding waiting for its exit.

The just-sold filter

A sale in the last three years is the loudest “not selling” in the record. Prospector reads the county sales feed and filters fresh owners out automatically.

Who it's for

Built for buyers who knock first

House hunters in impossible markets

When nothing you love ever hits the market, hunt the homes that were never listed. Pick your dream blocks and find the owners most likely to say “funny you should ask.”

Small investors & builders

Build a proprietary pipeline of tired landlords, estates, and dated structures on valuable land, years before they reach the MLS auction and everyone else's spreadsheet.

Agents farming a neighborhood

Your farm has a hundred future listings hiding in the tax roll. Know which doors are worth a conversation years before the competition's postcard arrives.

Outreach

From dossier to a letter worth opening

AI-drafted letter · printed & mailed by you
Tuesday morning

Dear neighbor,

My name is [YOUR NAME]. My family and I have hoped to put down roots on Palatine Avenue for years, and the brick craftsman at 3427 is exactly the home we dream about.

We are not brokers and this is not a mass mailing. If selling has ever crossed your mind, this year or five years from now, I would love to hear from you. And if not, please just enjoy this note from someone who admires your home.

[YOUR NAME] · [YOUR PHONE]

Copy letterDrafted from the dossier. You print, sign, and stamp it.

Why a letter?

  • It's the respectful channel. No cold calls, no texts, no scraped emails. A letter can be read on the owner's own time and thrown away without a second thought.
  • It's the legal channel. Personal mail to a public tax-roll address needs no opt-in anywhere in the US. No TCPA, no CAN-SPAM.
  • It works when it's specific. Every draft is written from this house's actual dossier: the years, the block, the details. Never a “WE BUY HOUSES” postcard.
  • You stay in control. Prospector never sends anything. Every letter passes through your printer and your signature.

Pricing

Free to scout. Pro when you're serious.

Free

$0
free forever
  • 25 scored homes per search
  • Top 2 signals per home
  • County-record discovery
  • Compounding home database
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Pro

$49/mo
or $490/yr (2 months free)
  • 500 homes per search
  • Every scoring signal
  • 25 deep dives a month: records, AI dossier, letter draft
  • Auto-dive the top 3 of every search
  • CSV export
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Ultra

$149/mo
or $1,490/yr (2 months free)
  • 5,000 homes per search
  • 100 deep dives a month
  • Auto-dive the top 10 of every search
  • For investors and agents farming whole neighborhoods
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The free tier needs no card, ever. Pro and Ultra are billed securely through Stripe; yearly plans get two months free, and you can cancel anytime from the billing portal.

FAQ

Fair questions

Where does the data come from?

Public records: county assessor parcel rolls (site addresses, taxpayer mailing addresses, assessed land and improvement values, exemption flags), county sales feeds, and OpenStreetMap. Deep dives can add licensed property-record providers (RentCast, ATTOM) and AI analysis. Prospector reads what anyone could read at the county; it just reads all of it and remembers everything.

Which areas are covered?

County-record discovery is live in 27 states. Statewide coverage: Washington, Florida, North Carolina, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Texas, Tennessee, Montana, Utah, and Arkansas. Major-metro coverage: Phoenix, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Denver, Columbus, Richmond, Greenville, Oklahoma City's west metro, Portland, and Boise. Most of these include owner names and tax-bill mailing addresses, so absentee and trust signals appear on the very first search. Everywhere else, discovery falls back to OpenStreetMap addresses and deep dives fill in ownership. The provider model makes each new county a plug-in, and coverage grows every month.

Is it legal and ethical to contact owners?

Assessor rolls are public record by law, and a personal letter to a property's tax-roll address is legal throughout the US with no opt-in required. Home Prospector deliberately supports letters only: no phone numbers, no emails, no door-knock scripts. Scores estimate circumstances, not intent; owners owe you nothing, and the letter drafts say so.

What exactly is a deep dive?

One home gets the full treatment: property-record lookups (owner names, sale history, value estimate), a re-scored signal set, an AI-written dossier with a sell-likelihood and confidence level, and a personalized letter draft. It becomes part of your permanent history.

Do owners know they are in the results?

Nothing is published about any home. Dossiers are private to your account, built from records that were already public, and meant to start a respectful, human conversation or none at all.

What does it cost?

Searching, scoring, and county-record signals are free: 25 scored homes per search with the top two signals each, no card required. Pro ($49/mo) unlocks 500 homes per search, every signal, 25 deep dives a month with AI dossiers and letter drafts, and CSV export. Ultra ($149/mo) scales that to 5,000 homes and 100 deep dives. Yearly billing gets two months free, and you can cancel anytime.

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