Method

Five stages, and a short list of things we refuse to guess.

Surplus lists are easy to produce and nearly worthless. The expensive part is proving each field against the document it came from, then noticing when it changes.

Ingest

Clerk surplus register and the underlying tax deed file, on a daily schedule.

Extract

Amounts, names and mailing dates parsed from the original PDFs with page-level spans.

Cross-match

Probate dockets, official records and the property appraiser roll, joined on parcel and name.

Verify

Each field re-read against its source. Unsourced values are dropped, never guessed.

Monitor

Re-checked daily for disbursement, amount revision and change of status.

The deliberate gaps

What a serious buyer checks first.

Any vendor can add fields. The signal is which ones they decline to fabricate.

We do not rank lien priority

Priority is a legal determination that depends on recording order, statutory exceptions and facts outside the record. We give you book and page and stop.

We do not estimate recoverable value

Netting senior interests against a surplus figure is underwriting. Encoding a guess as a number invites your team to trust it.

We do not fill gaps with inference

A blank field with a stated reason costs an analyst one minute. A confident wrong value costs a week.

We do not contact claimants

No outreach, no claim preparation, no filing, no appearance. That keeps this a research product rather than a representation service.

The method only matters if it holds up.

Take twenty-five files and check them against the clerk yourself.

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