Sean, you threw your credentials down so I’m gonna take the opportunity to ask a burning question. BTW, nice to see a celeb in the house, welcome.
What steps does your site take to remove listings (be they nod, not or bank owned)? We have had many a discussion on the boards about using sites like yours for stats as opposed to leads. It has been my position that data sites like yours take a bit of a shotgun approach, throw a lot of raw data at you, and it is up to the viewer to sift through it, chase a few down and hopefully find their pot of gold. Others seem to think that the raw numbers of nods and nots can be used as hard statsitics regarding foreclosures. I have found many listings that were already sold, modified loans or whatever method of removing themselves from the foreclosure process but they still show up on the maps (I’m generalizing the various sites but have found it on yours as well).
Don’t take this as an attack, it isn’t meant to be one, I personally bought a house recently using the “stalking” method facilitated by your website, but through that journey I found many irregularities and errors that I don’t think your site or those like it should be used for it’s statistics, but rather for the raw data that you collect and organize as a way to get ahead of the game in a purchase strategy.
here is an example of one of the recent discussions when someone used data from your site to create a thesis. Please excuse my tounge and cheek humor, if you were a reguler here you would know that I am to taken with a grain of salt and sometimes a parental guidance warning.
