LeadCounty vs Propwire: who should choose which.
LeadCounty vs Propwire: choose Propwire if you are starting out with no budget and want to learn on free nationwide lists; choose LeadCounty if you work one to a few counties and want each county's own records every week, with at most 10 investors per county.
Propwire's free plan is the cheapest way to start: national public records, MLS keyword search and 10,000 downloads a month without a card. Gold, at $119 a month, removes the export limit and includes skip traces.
LeadCounty costs money and covers fewer places, so here is what the price buys. Each of its 99 counties is collected from the county's own offices every week, scored for how likely each owner is to sell with the reasons shown, and capped at 10 investors, so the list is not the same free download everyone else has.
LeadCounty has a 7-day free trial (a trial, not a free plan), so you can test your own county next to Propwire.
Seats open in 98 of 99 countiesLeadCounty and Propwire, feature by feature.
| Feature | LeadCounty | Propwire |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Starter $99 / month for 1 county | Free plan; Gold $119 / month |
| Other plans | Pro $199 / month for 2 counties; Team $399 / month for 5 counties; each extra county $79 / month; Founding $70 / month for 1 county (first 10 customers only, locked for life); yearly billing saves 30% | Free: 10,000 downloads a month and 10 skip traces; Gold: unlimited exports and 2,500–10,000 skip traces included |
| Billed on top | Nothing is metered: no credits, no per-lead or per-export fees inside your plan's export rows. | Skip traces beyond Gold's allowance are 10¢ each (successful traces only). Figures as reported by a 2026 review; their pricing page did not load for us. |
| Free trial | 7 days; the Explore trial needs no card | The free plan needs no card |
| Contract | Monthly or yearly, no contract; cancel in your account in two clicks | Monthly |
| Users | 2 on Pro, 3 on Team; extra seats $39 / month | 1 user |
| Exports | 80,000 rows a month on Pro, 250,000 on Team; unlimited on yearly plans | 10,000 a month free; unlimited on Gold |
| Coverage | 99 U.S. counties in 27 states, county by county | Nationwide, 157 million properties |
| Where the data comes from | Each county's own auditor or appraiser, treasurer, recorder, court and city files | National public records plus MLS keyword search |
| How fresh it is | Live county data, collected from the county offices every week | Refresh schedule not stated on the pages we checked |
| Investors on the same county list | At most 10 investors per county | No limit: the free plan is open to everyone |
| Skip tracing | No tracing service built in: export a ready-made file for BatchData, REISift or most providers, then import the phones and e-mails back | Yes: 10 free credits, 2,500–10,000 on Gold, then 10¢ a successful trace |
| Direct mail | Seller letters and mailing lists to print or send through a mail house; no mail sending | No |
| Dialer / texting | No dialer: log each call and its outcome on the property | No |
| Phone use | Works in the phone's browser, including driving for dollars; no app to install | Not confirmed |
| AI features | No chat assistant. A machine-learning likely-to-sell model for each county, trained on that county's own sales and tested on real ones, with written reasons; the Explain this lead report follows written rules | AI-generated lists on Gold |
| Comps and deal math | County sales from the last 12 months on every property; 20 deal calculators | Comps with radius and a report |
Propwire facts from propwire.com and the sources below; prices are checked monthly. Prices change; check their site before you buy. Propwire is a trademark of its owner; LeadCounty is not affiliated with it.
Every LeadCounty feature next to Propwire.
Our advantages first, then what both tools have, then where Propwire is ahead. "Not stated" means Propwire's own pages do not say, so we do not guess.
| Feature | LeadCounty | Propwire |
|---|---|---|
| Where LeadCounty is aheadThings we built that the pages of these tools do not list. | ||
| Data straight from each county's offices, every week | Yes 585 county, court and city offices; collected every week, live | Partly national file |
| Investors allowed on the same county list | Yes at most 10 per county | No no limit |
| Likely-to-sell score tested on real sales, published per county | Yes a model trained on each county's own sales; 1 to 10 with written reasons; results for every county on our proof page | No no published test |
| Seven persona scores (wholesale deal, flip, landlord fit, tired landlord, tax lien and more) | Yes each 1 to 10 with plain-word reasons, on every property | Not stated |
| Owner and buyer profiles across counties | Yes 29.7 million owners; 413,555 own property in two or more counties | Not stated |
| LLC and trust owners: the people behind the company | Partly registered agent and principal office from state business files, where those are free to read | Not stated |
| Open the original deed or loan at the county | Yes one-click "Open at the county" link on every deed, loan and case with a document number; free | Not stated |
| Explain this lead: one-page report with an offer range | Yes on screen free; designed PDF, 5 a month in every plan | Not stated |
| Advanced automatic lead rules | Yes AND / OR conditions, schedules, action sequences, team round-robin, preview, undo, 16 ready-made rules | Not stated |
| Paste a Zillow, Redfin or Realtor.com link to open the owner file | Yes only the address is used; nothing is copied from those sites | Not stated |
| Browser extension side panel on listing sites | Yes free for subscribers, in the counties on your plan | Not stated |
| Try an address before you sign up | Yes type an address on our home page and see the score and the reasons | Not stated |
| Guided welcome tour and page tips | Yes on first sign-in, repeatable any time | Not stated |
| Provider-ready skip-trace, mail-house and CRM files | Yes BatchData, REISift, common format and custom columns; Click2Mail, Lob, PostcardMania, Yellow Letters; Follow Up Boss, Investorfuse, REsimpli, GoHighLevel, Podio | Not stated |
| Letters with reply tracking | Yes 6 templates; a code and QR on each letter marks the lead Responded (tracking add-on) | Not stated |
| Free public data reports and calculators | Yes Distress Index by state and county; 20 calculators with the math shown, no sign-up | Not stated |
| Nothing metered inside your plan | Yes no credits, no per-lead or per-export fees | No skip trace per success |
| What most tools have, and we have tooThe basics, all in one plan. | ||
| Ready-made seller lists | Yes 37 seller lists, each a plain rule with a live count | Yes |
| Columns per property | Yes 195 columns, plus the county's own extras | Not stated |
| List stacking | Yes weights x1 to x3, stack score, matched lists named | Yes |
| Plain-English search | Yes words become filters you can see | Partly MLS keywords |
| Full property history | Yes tax bills and payments by year, every deed, loans and liens, cases, a timeline of changes | Not stated |
| Foreclosure, sheriff sale, lien and probate data | Yes where the county or court publishes it | Yes |
| Court and city signals (code cases, evictions) | Yes where published | Partly |
| Map with draw-an-area and charts | Yes dots by score, satellite, shape or radius, heat layer, click a chart to filter | Not stated |
| Comps and nearby sales | Yes the county's own recorded sales, last 12 months | Yes |
| Cash buyers from deed records | Yes flipper and holder split; send a deal to buyers | Not stated |
| Upload your list and match it to county records | Yes CSV or Excel, up to 25,000 rows | Not stated |
| Watchlist, alerts and a Monday e-mail | Yes instant alerts, score-went-up alerts, weekly e-mail | Yes saved-search alerts |
| Driving for dollars | Yes in the phone's browser: routes, photos, replay | Not stated |
| Lead pipeline, tasks, calls and notes | Yes 7 stages, tasks, calendar, call outcomes, deal fields | Partly basic board |
| Team seats and shared leads | Yes 2 seats on Pro, 3 on Team; extra seats $39 | Not stated |
| Deal calculators | Yes 20, free on the website and in the app | Not stated |
| In-app feedback and a person within one business day | Yes feedback button on every screen; support by e-mail | Not stated |
| Where others are ahead todayWe say it plainly, so you can choose the right tool. | ||
| Nationwide coverage | No 99 counties in 27 states, county by county | Yes 157M records |
| Phone numbers and e-mails (skip tracing) built in | No export a ready file, import the results back | Yes 10 free, then 10 cents |
| Dialer and texting | No log each call and its outcome | Partly basic texting |
| Direct mail sent for you | No letters and mailing files to print or send through a mail house | Not stated |
| App-store mobile app | No works in the phone's browser, installable | Not stated |
| MLS and listing status | No links to listing sites; paste-a-link | Yes keywords |
| AI assistant | No no chat assistant; the likely-to-sell score is a trained model per county, its reasons and reports follow written rules | Not stated |
| Public API and Zapier | Partly webhook on every lead stage change; API planned | Not stated |
| Academy, courses and community | Partly help centre, guides, glossary and calculators; no video yet | Not stated |
| Free plan | No 7-day free trial; 20 free leads by e-mail | Yes free plan |
Three differences that change your results.
- 01
Free for everyone or capped per county
A free list is open to anyone who signs up, so the owners on it get the most mail and calls. LeadCounty admits at most 10 investors per county and shows which counties still have seats.
- 02
Raw records or a scored, explained list
Propwire gives you filters over national records. LeadCounty adds a likely-to-sell score for every property, tested on each county's real sales and published on the proof page, and it shows the top reasons behind every score in plain words.
- 03
A national file or the county's own files
Propwire uses national public records. LeadCounty collects each county's auditor, treasurer, recorder, court and city files every week, so a tax balance or a deed is as current as the county's last weekly file.
Who should still choose Propwire
Choose Propwire if you are just starting, have no budget for data yet, or need nationwide coverage with MLS keywords. It is a good place to learn the filters before paying for a tool.
- A free plan with 10,000 downloads a month
- Nationwide coverage with MLS keyword search
- Skip tracing included on Gold
- A simple deal board
Who LeadCounty fits
Investors and agents who work one to a few counties and want the county's own records every week, a likely-to-sell score with its reasons, and fewer competitors on the same owners: at most 10 investors per county.
- Straight from the county, every week
- At most 10 investors per county
- A score tested on real sales, county by county
- Reasons, not just a number
- Owners, not just properties
- The whole workflow in one plan
How a LeadCounty county list is built.
- Step 1
Collect
Every week we download each county's own files: the auditor or appraiser roll, the treasurer's tax bills and payments, the recorder's deeds, and court and city code records where the county publishes them.
- Step 2
Join and check
The files are joined by parcel, names and addresses are cleaned, and each county's numbers are checked against the week before before anything is published.
- Step 3
Score and explain
Every property gets a likely-to-sell score from 1 to 10 learned from that county's own sales, with its top reasons in plain words, and lands on the seller lists it matches.
- Step 4
Deliver
New matches show in New this week and your Monday e-mail; you stack lists, open the property file, and export one row per property for mail or skip tracing.
Using LeadCounty and Propwire together.
Many new investors learn on a free tool and move to LeadCounty for the one or two counties they actually work, where fresher records, the score with reasons and the cap on investors matter most.
LeadCounty vs Propwire: questions.
Is there a free version of LeadCounty?
There is a 7-day Explore trial without a card: every feature on your county, with owner names and house numbers hidden. The Full-access trial uses a card and unlocks everything; cancel before day 7 and you pay nothing.
Why pay for LeadCounty when Propwire is free?
For the counties you work: weekly county-direct records, 37 seller lists stacked and scored with reasons, a Monday e-mail of new matches, and at most 10 investors per county instead of a list anyone can download.
Does LeadCounty include skip tracing like Propwire Gold?
No. Export your list as a skip-trace file and use the service you prefer, paying only that service's own price.
Does LeadCounty have MLS data?
No. LeadCounty uses public county, court and city records only. Sales come from the county's deed records, which also feed the comps on every property.
How many counties does LeadCounty cover?
99 counties in 27 states today; the counties page lists them all. Tell us a missing county and we will tell you if and when we can add it.
Try LeadCounty next to Propwire, free for 7 days.
Many investors keep a national tool for skip tracing and mail and use LeadCounty for fresher county lists with fewer competitors: at most 10 investors per county.
- 7 days free
- Explore: no card
- Full access: cancel before day 7, pay nothing
- Max 10 investors per county
