Does anyone know of an online preforeclosure service of lis pendens before they are listed in the newspaper for Pennsylvania mainly in the pocono region. Thanks

You might try a title rep. Most of them have lists of preforclosures. It won't cost you anything.
Good luck

Try checking your county recorder's Web site. Depending on where you live, it might be called some thing else, but look for something like equity release notice.

1.Call your county courthouse clerk recorders office to see if they have an online website,some do not have one yet.

2.Find out how they are recorded,in my state the file lis pendens in there lien index by the persons name.

3.Most of these people will not be interested in selling,they will be looking to reinstate and catch up the loan.

4.Look through your local paper for fsbo's saying "owner will carry""motivated seller""must sell""relocating""estate sale"

5.Run a little classified ad 10 bucks a week in your local community newspaper.
We buy Houses any condition,situation!
No equity,no problem FREE 24 hr recorded message

6.network with community centers,churches,attorneys(divorce,probate,estate planning)and let them no you help owners out of bad situations.

good luck

Foreclosure.com lists pre-foreclosures - but I don't know if it's prior to newspaper listing.

Just a personal observation but I wouldn't waste my money on the national foreclosure listing sites unless you are advertising to pick up buyers.

Foreclosure.com is pretty typical for these lists. If it is 20-25% accurate, it is doing well. Like many of these lists it's info is highly dated and sometimes just plain wrong. Having the same property listed twice is another tweak fairly common on this list as with many others.

Maybe it's just my area but today they claimed some 397 REO properties in my county. No where near that high. Then had only 7 properties in pre-foreclosure. No where near that low. (We have that many Sheriff Sales each weekday.)

No, your best bet is a local list provider (costly but usually worth it), a friend at a title company with this info, or the time to do the research yourself. As to the latter, most of the counties here do not have this on the web. One out of 11 metro counties has the Sheriff Sale results (a month after the fact).

So, for us, it's find an alternative or start making trips to the courthouse...

Steele in Minnesota

I used to pay people to go to the recorder's office once a week for me. If you can train someone to do it, and not train them WHY you're doing it, it's not a bad way to go.

Rocksolid - that is a pretty sharp website you have there. Does it get much traffic for you?

Eric