How do you find inherited property leads before probate?
Daily County Intelligence covers every county in a state for $249 a month, with a 5-day trial of one state. Credit card required. The walkthrough for buyers is on the investor page, and Florida's live counts are on the Florida feed.
How does a same-day obituary compare with a purchased inherited-property file?
The house does not change hands the morning an obituary is published. What changes is who knows. A purchased file is usually compiled over a couple of weeks. A county feed shows the notice as it is posted.
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| Approach | Strength | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Same-day obituary feed | Timing, county, source URL, and named relatives | You still confirm the property. Not every death has a notice. |
| Purchased inherited-property file | Someone else attempted the property match | Often weeks old, and sold as a fixed number of records. |
| Probate court pull | A filed estate is a real legal event | Late, uneven across counties, and silent about deaths with no estate. |
| Driving the neighborhood later | You see the house | You missed the week the family was first deciding what to do. |
See what pre-probate leads from obituaries are.
What are the steps after you see the notice?
Subscribe to the state, not a handful of counties. Inherited property does not stay inside three ZIP codes. The feed includes every county so a death just outside your usual farm still shows up. Try one state free for 5 days.
Write down the decedent, the county, and the source. In select states, review a possible property match as a candidate only. Confirm the owner of record before anyone calls. The relatives named in the obituary are the warm starting point. They are not a skip-traced phone list. How to find heirs from an obituary covers that limit.
Where are obituaries published?
Inherited-property work fails when the team only checks one memorial website. Notices are posted by independent funeral homes and by newspapers, and many deaths never get a long obituary. We monitor 17,565+ of those sources. See where obituaries are published and the funeral home directory.
When you already have a name, use how to find an obituary. When you are deciding which source to trust, see funeral home vs newspaper obituaries.
Why is there no central database of homes that will be inherited?
No agency hands investors a nightly file of homes that will be inherited tomorrow. Property records and death records live in different offices, on different clocks. A vendor can join them later. That join is the three-week product. It is useful, and it is late.
ObituaryMonitor delivers the death signal, the place, and the family language from the notice, and attaches a possible parcel only where a county record supports it. Ownership, motivation, and price are still your work. There is no single database of deaths you can subscribe to instead.
What if you cannot find an obituary?
If a county feed is quiet, the honest reasons are a slow news week, deaths without obituaries, or a source we do not cover yet. If you are checking a specific owner and nothing comes back, treat that as no notice found, not as proof the owner is alive. How to check if a property owner has died explains both motions.
Delays, private services, and funeral-home-only notices are covered in what happens when there is no obituary.
How do you get notified when a new obituary is posted?
Turn on Daily County Intelligence for the state. The portal, the CSV, or the county feed API can bring new notices to the desk that already runs acquisitions. Survivors are included when the obituary names them. Contact details are not. The national feed is arranged with sales.
People watching a single relative should use name alerts and obituary monitoring. Acquisition teams should stay on the investor page and, in Florida, the county feed. Skip tracers can start at for skip tracers.
Frequently asked questions
What is an inherited property lead?
It is a home that may pass to heirs because an owner has died. An obituary is an early clue that the death happened. It does not by itself prove ownership, equity, or that anyone wants to sell.
How do obituaries help before probate?
The notice is often public before a court file exists. You learn the county, the date context, and the relatives named in the obituary, then you confirm the parcel in your own property tools.
Do you match every death to a house?
No. Property matching is offered in select states and returns a candidate address when a county record links. A match is something to research, not a deed and not a seller.
How is a same-day feed different from a purchased inherited-property file?
Purchased files are usually compiled over a couple of weeks and delivered on a schedule. A county feed shows obituaries as they are posted, across every county in the state, without a monthly record cap.
Can agents use this, or only investors?
Both. Agents, trust managers, and proptech teams use the same state feed. The respectful next step is still the same: confirm the property, then decide whether contact is appropriate.