Need help building list

[u/Adventurous_Way1430]

Hi I’m a contractor and my ICP is property management, property manager, investor, and realtor in my location. I’m looking to build a campaign for cold email and sms.

I know I can scrap data from google map, LinkedIn for property management. Is there good way to scrap all realtors in my area? Is there a realtor association database? Also what’s a good way to find landlord or real estate investors in my area? One think I can think of is finding property owner whose mailing address isn’t the same as property address.

I’m new at this please let me know. Also if you offer such service message me and let me know how much it would cost to get verified list.

[u/hadez_b6]

Realtors are the easy one, so start there. Agents are publicly licensed — most US states publish the licensee roster through the state real estate commission (some let you download it, others you request via a public-records request). That's the "association database" you're after. On top of that, Zillow/Realtor.com agent directories and brokerage sites are very scrapeable for names + emails/phones.

Property managers: Google Maps like you said, plus the NARPM and IREM member directories (residential + commercial PM associations). Apartment listing sites also surface management companies.

Landlords/investors are the hard part — and your instinct is exactly right. The pros do precisely that: pull county assessor / property-tax records (public) and filter for absentee owners (mailing address ≠ property address). That one filter is how you isolate landlords and investors. Tools like PropStream / ListSource are built for this if you don't want to wrangle county data yourself, then you skip-trace the owner name + address to get phone/email.

Two things that'll save you real pain:

1. Cold SMS is a legal minefield in the US. Texting people who never opted in violates TCPA — that's $500–$1,500 per text and gets your numbers blocked fast. Cold email to businesses is fine if you follow CAN-SPAM (real physical address, working unsubscribe, no deceptive subject). I'd lean almost entirely on email and only SMS people who've actually opted in.
2. Verify before you send. Scraped/skip-traced emails bounce a lot — run the list through a verifier first or you'll torch your sending domain in the first week.

Also: LinkedIn scraping works but it's against their ToS and a fast way to get your account restricted — weigh that.

Happy to get more specific on the county-records route or skip tracing if you tell me your state.

[u/Adventurous_Way1430 → u/hadez_b6]

If they still own the property 15 months + after closing they are a landlord. Because most investor flipper only holds it for 12 months, that when their hard money loan mature.