Where to find the overbids
Every county, Every Record is supplied in a different manner. There is no governmental, central repository of ALL records in ALL counties because the counties do not have any requirement to all be on the same page or use the same procedures.
Records are supplied:
- on a webpage as a list
- on a webpage only available through a search form
- on a downloadable PDF
- on a downloadable Excel Spreadsheet
- on a downloadable Word Document
Some counties do not supply a thing. You have to track their auctions and find out which ones sold for more than the starting bid to determine if there is an overbid.
Our biggest pieces of advice is in this area. DO NOT just accept what the county throws up on their website. We have seen many instances of “here’s our surplus list” but it’s months or a year old and they have had plenty of auctions with overbids since then.
With all of that said, we can tell you that you will find little success if you rely on county-supplied surplus lists. Other Asset Recovery businesses have already obtained those records long before the county put them up on their website. Our surplus lists are created by us on the same day as the auction because we live watch the auctions to obtain the surplus amounts.