Absentee owner

01How it is defined in LeadCounty

Owner's mailing address is a different house/street than the property (owner-occupancy credit and same-town PO boxes not counted).

02How many are on the list today

03Why it matters

Owners who do not live in the house are less attached to it, and every repair, vacancy or tax bill is a reason to sell.

04Where it shows up in public records

The owner's mailing address on the assessor's or tax roll, compared with the property address (owner-occupancy credits and same-town PO boxes are not counted).

05How to find absentee owner in 3 steps

• Step 1, find the record: the owner's mailing address on the assessor's or tax roll, compared with the property address (owner-occupancy credits and same-town PO boxes are not counted).
• Step 2, match it to the property: join the record to the parcel by its parcel number and the owner's name and address, so you know which house it belongs to.
• Step 3, add a second reason: stack absentee owner with another list to see which owners have more than one reason to sell. LeadCounty does steps 1 and 2 for every property each week.

06How we count it

LeadCounty counts absentee owner from each county's own records and shows the number for every county in the table above, refreshed weekly. A county that does not publish the record shows no count rather than a guess.

07How to use it

• Mail to the mailing address: it is where the owner actually lives.
• Stack with owned 10+ years or code violations.

08Best stacks with absentee owner

One list gives you a reason; two or three lists together give you owners with several reasons at once. The stacks that work best with absentee owner:

• Absentee owner + tax delinquent: tax is past due, a dated and money-based sign of pressure.
• Absentee owner + owned 15+ years: 15+ years of ownership usually means paid-down debt and real equity.
• Absentee owner + code violation: the city has ordered repairs, with deadlines and fines.