The short version

	National self-serve platforms	County probate list services	Pay-per-lead sites	Bluebeam Signals
Coverage	Nationwide	Selected counties	Wherever they sell	Maryland only, all 24 jurisdictions
Divorce and foreclosure source	Varies; often recorded documents	Usually not offered	Not offered	The court filing, read every court day
Estate matched to a house	Varies	Often “where available”	n/a	Every estate we deliver holds a house
Landlords in court	Lists inferred from ownership patterns	Not offered	Not offered	From eviction and rent-escrow filings, matched to the rental
Follows the case	Rarely	Rarely	n/a	Estates revisited while open; foreclosure and divorce stages tracked
Ranked for your trade	You build the filters	One list for everyone	Sold by category	Ranked separately per trade
Phone and email	Usually, via skip tracing	Often included	Yes, the lead asked	Optional add-on, 15¢ per match, with Do Not Call flags
Self-serve search	Yes, maps and apps	Download	App	No. Configured by hand
Letters mailed for you	Sometimes, as an add-on	Rarely	n/a	$1 written, $2 printed and mailed

Categories describe typical offerings as of October 2026 and vary by provider. Ask any provider, including us, the questions in our probate buyer’s guide.

What we do that others mostly don’t

Start from the court, not the deed. A divorce or foreclosure reaches the land records after the house decision is made. We read Maryland’s court filings every court day and tie each one to the home and the people on title. See court filing signals.

Connect the records to each other. A foreclosure on a house whose owner has died. An estate removing an occupant from a decedent’s home. A landlord in court over a rental they’ve owned for twenty years. Each of those is two public records that only mean something together, and we check them against each other every day.

Keep watching. An estate that gets an attorney, a representative who is replaced, a foreclosure that goes to mediation or gets a sale date: we follow the docket and tell you what changed, so the list doesn’t go stale the week after you buy it.

Know Maryland. Personal representatives instead of executors. Baltimore County versus Baltimore City. Ground rents, Columbia’s annual charge, septic near the Bay, use and possession after a divorce, the foreclosure mediation window. A national platform can’t carry that much local detail for every state.

Let you check us. Every row links to the public record behind it, including a link that opens the State’s own record for the parcel. Every case and estate number is there to look up yourself.

Refuse some things on purpose. No demographic targeting. No names stored from protective-order, criminal or custody cases. No lookups on a named individual. No mail that mentions the death, the divorce, the debt or the court. We think that makes the data more useful, not less: letters that read as respectful get kept.

When someone else is the better choice

• You want a built-in dialer and CRM. We deliver a file with optional phone numbers; we don’t run your calling. A platform with a dialer fits a high-volume calling floor better, and in Maryland, automated dialing for sales calls needs prior written consent anyway.
• You work outside Maryland. We cover one state. A national platform makes sense if your territory crosses into Virginia, DC or Pennsylvania.
• You want to search and map on your own, any time. We configure your territory by hand and deliver a file. If you want an app, that’s not us.
• You need a job this week. Pay-per-lead sites sell homeowners who already asked for a quote. Our records are earlier and cheaper, but they take a few months of steady outreach to pay off.

None of these is either-or. Using us for the early Maryland signal and another provider for out-of-state coverage or a self-serve app is a perfectly sensible setup.