Learning Center: Every FlipProperties Guide
By the FlipProperties Editorial Team Last updated October 6, 2026
Free guides for real estate investors on finding off-market deals, working with property data, reaching owners and analyzing deals. Pick a topic below, or search real investor questions in the Investor Question Finder.
Finding deals
- How to Find Motivated Sellers
The public-record signals that point to an owner who may sell, and how to reach them before they list.
- How to Find Absentee Owners
How to spot owners who don't live at the property, using county tax records.
- Build a Pre-Foreclosure List in PropStream
Step by step, pulling owners who have received a default notice into a working list.
- Driving for Dollars
Finding distressed and vacant properties in person and turning them into leads.
- Off-Market Properties
How to find unlisted homes using public-record signals like foreclosures, tax liens and vacancies.
Property data
- County Property Records
Where owner, deed and mortgage data comes from, and how to look it up yourself.
- How to Analyze Equity in PropStream
Reading estimated equity, and why it can differ from what the owner really has.
- How to Export Lists from PropStream
Getting your filtered lists out for mail, calls and your CRM.
Outreach & compliance
- How to Find Cash Buyers
Finding active cash buyers from recorded sales with no mortgage.
- How to Stack Lists in PropStream
Combining lead lists to find owners who show up on more than one.
Deal analysis
- Flip Comps
Fix-and-flip comps from renovated sales, used to estimate ARV and your maximum allowable offer.
- Sales Comps
Pulling and adjusting recent comparable sales to value a property before you offer.
- Land Comps
Comparable sales for vacant land.
Tools & comparisons
- Investor Question Finder
Search real investor questions, each with a short plain-English answer.
- PropStream Review
What PropStream does and who it fits.
- Best PropStream Alternatives
Other real estate data platforms and how they compare.
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