{"id":12899,"date":"2021-12-22T20:51:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T20:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxauctionsurplus.com\/Florida\/?page_id=12899"},"modified":"2024-07-29T12:40:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T16:40:04","slug":"step-5-locate-and-contact-the-property-owner","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.taxauctionsurplus.com\/Florida\/free-tax-deed-surplus-course\/step-by-step-asset-recovery-of-tax-deed-surplus\/step-5-locate-and-contact-the-property-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"STEP 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">STEP 5 \u2013 LOCATE AND CONTACT THE PROPERTY OWNER<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">With our Surplus Records, we give you the owners name and mailing address. Many times, the owner of the property never lived there, they were renting it out, etc.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Therefore, it\u2019s pretty easy obtaining their current address, because we give it to you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">However, there are also plenty of times you will need to \u2018skip trace\u2019 or locate the person. Some consider this the most difficult part of the process. You may think you need a Private Investigator or Professional Skip Tracer to locate these property owners, but mostly that is not true. With the wealth of information available online for free, you can locate these people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxauctionsurplus.com\/Florida\/all-resources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Resources<\/span><\/a> section, we have a guide to show you how to \u201cSkip Trace Using Public Records\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxauctionsurplus.com\/Florida\/free-tax-deed-surplus-course\/step-by-step-asset-recovery-of-tax-deed-surplus\/step-6-decide-on-the-route-to-take-with-your-client-sign-papers\/\">STEP 6 \u2013 DECIDE ON THE ROUTE TO TAKE WITH YOUR CLIENT &amp; SIGN PAPERS<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":12814,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12899","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxauctionsurplus.com\/Florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxauctionsurplus.com\/Florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxauctionsurplus.com\/Florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxauctionsurplus.com\/Florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxauctionsurplus.com\/Florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12899"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxauctionsurplus.com\/Florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71990,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxauctionsurplus.com\/Florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12899\/revisions\/71990"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxauctionsurplus.com\/Florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxauctionsurplus.com\/Florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}