Montgomery & Prince George’s County, Maryland
How Maryland contractors find work before homeowners take bids
Lead apps sell the same homeowner to everyone who pays, and the job goes to whoever quotes lowest. The alternative is reaching a property from a recorded event — a transfer, a permit, a violation, a septic system due for service — before anyone is collecting quotes.
$75 a month. No setup fee. 25 real records free.
The two records most Maryland contractors overlook
This is the only record type on the list with a built-in repeat cycle. Septic systems need pumping every three to five years and wells need pump and pressure-tank service. The requirement is recorded on the parcel, it does not depend on anyone deciding to spend money, and it comes back around. For a business built on small jobs and repeat customers, that is worth more than a one-time trigger.
This is the record type that most often turns into a monthly arrangement rather than a single invoice — and the mail for it never references the estate, the filing or a death. It offers upkeep on a property that may be standing empty, conditionally, and nothing more.
The rest of the record types
Drive time is the filter that matters most
A small crew does not care about “Montgomery County” as one geography. They care whether they can get there in twenty minutes. Every record carries drive time from your base, so a $180 gutter job never lands on a list that would send you across the county for it.
This is the single filter that changes a contractor list from theoretically interesting to actually workable, and it is why most generic lists fail for this trade. Rockville, Silver Spring, Gaithersburg, Wheaton, Bethesda, Germantown, Hyattsville, College Park, Bowie, Laurel, Upper Marlboro, Greenbelt, Capitol Heights and everywhere between are all available — filtered to the part you can reach.
What to say, and what never to say
Ask for the smallest job on the list, not the biggest. A stranger pitching a kitchen remodel gets nothing. A $180 gutter clean — flat price quoted before you start, photos when it is done — is a low-cost way for a homeowner to find out whether you are worth trusting with something larger. Every template we write for this trade asks small first, deliberately.
Never mention how you found them. A letter referencing a code violation reads as a threat, not an offer. The record tells you when to write; it should not appear in what you write. Same rule for estate properties — the mail offers upkeep, never condolences from a stranger.
And get your MHIC license before you mail anybody if you are doing work that requires one. Homeowners can check, and the ones with money to spend generally do.
See the actual letter templates and a sample record →
What a first campaign costs
$75 for the data, plus about $50 in postage if you mail fifty letters yourself — or $100 if we print and mail them for you at $2 a piece. Around $125 to $175 all in for a first campaign. Just started your business? The first three months are $50.
Treat it as a multi-month channel rather than a single drop. Fifty letters you can personally follow up on beats five hundred you cannot, and the suppression file makes sure the same property never comes back to you twice.
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