Real estate agents already have the listings. This is the X-ray on everything else.
SCOUTRE opens any U.S. house — stand in front of it and GPS finds the parcel, or type the address from your desk — and returns the owner of record, their mailing address, whether they live there, how long they have owned it, estimated value, estimated equity and equity percentage, estimated mortgage balance, lender and lien position, MLS status from participating boards and nearby comparable sales. 160 million U.S. properties, nationwide. Coverage varies by county.
Then you act from the same record: skip trace the owner for phone numbers, email addresses and the mailing address that is often not the property address, or put a branded postcard in the mail carrying the photo of the house you just took. Equity and mortgage figures are estimates, not statements of account balance.
3 days free, then $79 a month.
The owner, the equity and the comps on a house that was never listed
Board and association membership already bundles an agent a stack of listing tools, and those tools are authoritative on what is listed. SCOUTRE answers the other question: who owns the house on the corner that has never come to market, roughly what is owed on it, how much equity has built up, and how to reach that owner. Open the property and the owner, the occupancy, the ownership length, the estimated equity and mortgage position, the MLS status and the nearby comparable sales come back on one record, across 160 million U.S. properties. Coverage varies by county.
That is the X-ray, and it is half of it. From the same record you trace the owner's phone numbers and email addresses, and mail a branded postcard carrying the actual photo of the house. Agents are one of eight roles in all SCOUTRE solutions, and the underlying capabilities are set out in what SCOUTRE does.
What problems does this solve?
Five things cost an agent listings in a farm: not knowing the owner's situation fast enough, the house that was never listed, the valuation answered two days late, mail that looks like every other agent's just-sold card, and the compliance line.
Someone is standing in front of me and I know nothing about their situation
Agents fall behind because they do not have the owner's full picture right away. Whether the person in front of you is a possible seller or a possible buyer, the conversation changes when you already know the house. Open the property and SCOUTRE shows whether they own it and live in it, when they bought and what they paid, roughly how much equity has accumulated, the estimated mortgage balance and lien position, and what the houses around them sold for. Those figures are estimates, not account balances. Long-term owner, high equity and out-of-state owner change the opening line more than any script.
The house I want is one that has never been listed
A listings database carries nothing on the owner of a house that has never come to market. SCOUTRE reads that house from the recorded county data instead: owner of record, owner mailing address, occupancy, ownership length, sale and deed history, taxes, and the 16 signals. Availability varies by property, county and source.
My farming mail looks like every other agent's just-sold card
Mail goes out from the property lead carrying the actual photo of that house, with your logo, headshot and brand colors on it. Choose size, layout, headline, message, handwriting style and ink color, and send once or run a six-touch campaign. See postcards and handwritten letters.
A neighbour asks what their house is worth and I answer two days later
Nearby sold comparable sales, price per square foot and an adjustable estimated value sit on the record while you are at the mailbox, not back at the desk that evening — enough for a real conversation on the spot and a branded valuation invitation the same afternoon. It is comparable-sales context, not a comparative market analysis; the CMA stays your work as the licensee.
I am licensed and I need to know where the line is
Outreach goes out under your own name, your own brand and your own responsibility. You are the caller of record. SCOUTRE surfaces Federal DNC, State DNC, DMA suppression and known-litigator flags on every trace; compliance is yours, and this is not legal advice. SCOUTRE is not a consumer reporting agency and what it returns is not a consumer report, so it cannot be used to decide eligibility for credit, insurance, employment or housing tenancy — see the FTC on the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The FCC publishes the federal telemarketing rules.
Can an agent get this from the MLS and the county for free?
Mostly, yes, and it is worth knowing how far each route gets you. Your MLS is a listings database: authoritative on what is listed, what has sold and days on market, and silent on the owner of a house that has never come to market. Your county assessor or property appraiser publishes the owner of record and the mailing address for free — Philadelphia at property.phila.gov, Cook County at cookcountyassessor.com — one parcel and one county website at a time.
What neither route gives you is the moment. Both are answers you get at a desk, later: a browser tab per parcel, a name with no phone number attached, no equity estimate beside it, no read on whether that household has a reason to move. SCOUTRE returns the owner, the estimated equity, the mortgage position, the comps, the 16 signals and the contact paths on one record while you stand in front of the house, and the mail goes out from that same record. Farm one street a season and the free route is enough. Work a farm every week and the difference is how fast you know.
16 signals tell you which owners have a reason to sell
Find motivated sellers before they list. The mechanism is not a query — SCOUTRE has no market-wide search. You add the property, from the kerb by GPS or by typing the address, and the 16 signals read that one house — probate, absentee owner, out-of-state owner, tax lien, long-term owner, high equity and the rest, enumerated in full below. A probate estate, a landlord two states away, a household twenty-two years in the same house — circumstance shows in the record before intent shows in a conversation. Availability varies by property, county and source.
Phone numbers, email addresses and a postcard, from the same record
SCOUTRE puts the next action on the same screen as the intelligence. Tap to skip trace and the record returns multiple phone numbers classified wireless or landline, multiple email addresses, and the owner's mailing address — which for an absentee owner is usually not the property address. Multiple owners are tabbed separately, and traces run against live sources at the moment you request them, drawing on 150M+ U.S. residential records in the skip-trace source.
Every trace is screened against Federal DNC, State DNC, DMA suppression and known-litigator flags at no extra cost, and the record carries a Recent Data badge and a TRACED state so you can see what you are working with. Tracing is unmetered on the plan. Match rates sit in a 70–95% provider-reported match range and input quality matters; hit rates vary by property and county. See real estate skip tracing.
Contact is one tap, and it runs through your own accounts. Tap a phone number and your own dialer opens, so the homeowner sees your real local number on the caller ID. Tap to text and your own messages app opens. Tap an email address and your own email client opens with a template already filled in, nothing to set up. One tap, your client, your number. SCOUTRE does not send email, texts or calls on your behalf.
Physical mail is the one thing SCOUTRE sends. From that same property lead, a branded postcard or handwritten letter goes out carrying the actual photo of the house you took in the field, with your logo, headshot, brand colors and contact details on it. Postcards start from $0.50 and handwritten letters from $0.83, print and postage included, and your first postcard is free. Every piece carries a QR code tied to that one homeowner, opening a branded home-valuation page in your name; when they scan it your phone buzzes and the request attaches to the same lead. See postcards and handwritten letters.
A farm, one address at a time
Geographic farming here runs house by house. You add properties one at a time — captured while driving or found by address — and each stays on its own saved record.
Add the houses on your street
Stand in front of any house and SCOUTRE identifies the exact parcel. No address needed. Or type any U.S. address and build the same farm from the office.
Read the ownership and money picture
Owner name, mailing address, occupancy, estimated value and estimated equity. The long-term owner and recent transfer signals separate the household of twenty-two years from the one that bought last spring.
Check comps and market status
Nearby sold comparable sales with price per square foot, plus MLS status from participating boards and the MLS activity signal.
Knock, or mail the absentee owner
The absentee and out-of-state signals show the doors not worth walking to, and the owner's mailing address sits separately from the property address, so the letter reaches the owner, not the tenant.
Send the branded valuation invitation
Every mailing carries a QR code tied to that one homeowner, opening a branded home-valuation page in your name and colors.
Follow up on the date you set
Follow-ups carry a date, time and notes, and sync with Google Calendar and Apple Calendar. A NEGLECTED state flags stale leads.
Each property sits in an 11-stage pipeline you move by hand: New, Queued, Called, Texted, Contacted, Analyzing, Offer Sent, Negotiating, Under Contract, Closed, Dead. Those names come from an acquisition pipeline; an agent will ignore some.
What comes back on a property?
SCOUTRE covers 160 million U.S. properties at roughly 95% coverage. Coverage varies by county.
- Owner name, owner mailing address, and whether the owner lives there.
- Estimated value, estimated equity, estimated equity percentage, estimated mortgage balance.
- Lender, lien position, loan type, original amount, loan term and maturity date.
- Sale history, last sale price and date, deeds and taxes.
- Beds, baths, square footage, lot size, year built, zoning, land use, MLS status, Street View and nearby comparable sales.
MLS status comes from participating boards, so a board that does not participate shows nothing here. Equity and mortgage figures are estimates derived from recorded loan history and assessed values. They are not statements of account balance.
SCOUTRE flags 16 signals, of which long-term owner, high equity, free and clear, absentee owner, out-of-state owner, MLS activity and recent transfer matter most to a farming agent. The full set:
- Preforeclosure
- Probate or inherited
- Tax lien
- Other liens
- Absentee owner
- Out-of-state owner
- Vacant
- High equity
- Free and clear
- Auction
- Bank owned
- Long-term owner
- Recent transfer
- No homestead exemption
- Low down payment at last sale
- MLS activity
Signal availability varies by property, county and source.
What SCOUTRE does not do
SCOUTRE has no market-wide property search. You cannot ask it for every preforeclosure in a city; the 30+ filters work on the leads you have already saved. An agent used to buying a farm list by ZIP code will feel that immediately.
Each account is a single user — no teams, no seats, no shared pipelines. SCOUTRE does not send email, texts or calls on your behalf. It opens your own apps with the message ready. Physical mail is the one thing SCOUTRE produces and sends for you. And there is no CSV import and no export today, so a sphere database cannot be brought in or taken out.
What does SCOUTRE cost for a real estate agent?
One plan, $79 a month, after a 3-day free trial. Cancel anytime. Leads, captures, skip traces, re-traces, photos, voice notes and follow-ups are unlimited. Physical mail is the only pay-per-use item on the plan.
Postcards start from $0.50 and handwritten letters from $0.83, print and postage included. Address verification and a printed proof are shown before you pay, and your first postcard is mailed free. Calls and texts cost nothing extra. Full breakdown on SCOUTRE pricing.
Frequently asked questions
I already get tools with my MLS membership — what does this add?
Immediacy and depth on the owner. Your MLS is authoritative on what is listed, what sold and how long it took, and the public-record add-ons around it answer one lookup at a time from a desk. SCOUTRE adds the house that was never listed and the owner behind it: owner of record, occupancy, ownership length, estimated equity and mortgage position, 16 signals, comparable-sales context, the owner's phone numbers and email addresses, and branded mail — on one record, in your hand while you are standing in front of the house.
Can I get the owner's phone number from this?
Yes, by running a skip trace on a property you have saved. A trace returns multiple phone numbers classified wireless or landline, multiple email addresses and the owner's mailing address, drawn from 150M+ US residential records in the skip-trace source and screened against Federal DNC, State DNC, DMA suppression and known-litigator flags. Match rates sit in a 70-95% provider-reported match range and input quality matters. Tracing is unmetered on the plan, and hit rates vary by property and county.
How do you know which homeowner is a motivated seller?
Circumstance shows in the record before intent shows in conversation. A probate transfer, an absentee or out-of-state owner, a tax lien, a long-term owner and the MLS activity signal each mark a household with a reason to move, and SCOUTRE flags all 16 signals on a property you have added. Signals describe circumstance, not intent, and availability varies by property, county and source.
How does circle prospecting work if there is no market-wide search?
You add the neighbours one at a time. Walk or drive the block around your listing and capture each house with GPS, or type the addresses into Nationwide Property Search from the office. Each becomes a saved lead with owner, occupancy and equity context.
Can a team lead run SCOUTRE for their agents?
No. A team lead cannot see or assign an agent's leads, and a second person cannot log in. If a team needs shared pipelines and manager oversight, this is the wrong tool.
Is this compliant with my brokerage and with do-not-call rules?
Your brokerage's rules still apply and nothing in SCOUTRE changes them. Screening indicators come back on every trace — Federal DNC, State DNC, DMA suppression and known-litigator flags — but you are the caller of record and responsible for your own compliance. This is not legal advice.
What does the home-valuation page show the homeowner?
Agents get a branded home-valuation page instead of the investor cash-offer page, and requests come back as listing opportunities. Every mailing carries a QR code tied to that one homeowner, and when they scan it you get an instant push notification. You do not need a website. SCOUTRE generates the page.
Does SCOUTRE record the calls and emails I make to my farm?
No. The tap hands off to your own app and stops there. SCOUTRE does not log calls, emails or texts back onto the lead. You move the lead's stage yourself. Mail HQ tracks the physical mail SCOUTRE sends and the QR responses, nothing else.
Know the owner's full picture before you knock
3 days free, then $79 per month. Owner, estimated equity, mortgage position, comps and 16 signals on any property — then the phone numbers, the email addresses and the mail, from the same record. Cancel anytime.
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