When an owner stops paying property taxes, the county files a lawsuit at the courthouse — years before the property hits any foreclosure list, auction site, or investor app. TaxDeedRadar reads those filings every morning and puts them in your inbox while every other investor is still waiting for a list that hasn't been printed yet.
A taxing unit sues the owner to foreclose the tax lien — Tex. Tax Code § 33.41. It enters the district clerk's public record the same day. This is the earliest legal signal of distress that exists.
Every morning TaxDeedRadar ingests the clerk's daily filing data, isolates every tax suit, and joins it with owner names and mailing addresses — already in the file, no skip-trace bill.
The owner was just served. They're motivated, reachable, and nobody else has called — because no platform sells this list. Your letter is the first one in the mailbox.
Pulled from the Harris County District Clerk's public record and redacted for this preview. Members get the full case numbers, all parties, and complete mailing addresses — including out-of-state absentee owners like row three.
| Case | Filed | Type | Defendant | Property / Mailing | City |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026••••• | 08-21 | TAX SUIT | GAR••• | 1XXXX BEAR BAYOU DRNEW | CHANNELVIEW 77530 |
| 2026••••• | 08-20 | TAX SUIT | TRE••• | 8XX DONCREST ST | CHANNELVIEW 77530 |
| 2026••••• | 08-21 | TAX SUIT | CAR••• | 2XXX COYLE AVEABSENTEE | ELK GROVE VILLAGE, IL |
| 2026••••• | 08-20 | TAX SUIT | SHI••• | 2XXX INDIAN MOUND TRL | CROSBY 77532 |
| 2026••••• | 08-19 | TAX SUIT | ANA••• | 1XXXX SURF BIRD LN | HOUSTON 77049 |
| 2026••••• | 08-20 | TAX SUIT | CAR••• | 1XXX LOUISIANA ST | HOUSTON 77002 |
| 2026••••• | 08-21 | TAX SUIT | ECH••• | 1XXXX RED BUFF RD | PASADENA 77507 |
The big platforms are built on tax-assessor rolls — PropStream's own FAQ admits its tax data "updates annually." Court filings never make it into their national schema, because parsing 254 Texas counties one clerk at a time doesn't scale for them. It scales fine for one county done obsessively.
A lead list dies the moment everyone has it. So we don't sell everyone the list — Harris County is capped at 50 members, permanently. When the seats are gone, the only way in is a waitlist for someone to leave. Nobody leaves a list that prints deals.
Every court day, more suits are filed — and every one of them is an owner someone else will reach first if you're not on the feed.
Completely. Tax suits are public court records, published by the Harris County District Clerk in a public dataset. Texas law requires clerks to keep these records open for public examination. We read what's public — faster and every single day. Tex. Tax Code § 33.41 · Tex. Prop. Code § 51.002(f)
The same reason you pay for any feed: the raw file is a tab-delimited dump of ~800 mixed court filings a day with no filter, no join to owner addresses, and no alerting. You could rebuild this. So could anyone — six years from now, when these properties finally hit the auction lists everyone else reads.
Because we sell an edge, not a spreadsheet. 5,000 subscribers mailing the same owner is PropStream — that's the product we exist to beat. Capped seats keep response rates high for the people inside, which is exactly why the cap never moves.