Real estate wholesaling software that ends in a true MAO
SCOUTRE is real estate wholesaling software for finding motivated sellers, one property at a time. Stand in front of a house, or type any U.S. address from anywhere, and the record returns the owner, the equity position and 16 distress signals across 160 million U.S. properties. The deal analysis ends in your true maximum allowable offer. Coverage varies by county.
This page covers the wholesale motion end to end: spot the house, check for room to buy, trace the owner, run the six-step analysis and mail a postcard carrying that house's own photo.
Your maximum allowable offer, at the house
The wholesaler's only real question is how much they can pay and still get paid, and SCOUTRE answers it at the house rather than at the desk. One property record feeds the owner, the equity position and the mortgage balance into a six-step analysis ending in a true maximum allowable offer. Coverage varies by county.
The same record produces the outreach. A skip trace runs from it, unmetered, and a postcard carrying the actual photo of that house is composed from it. Wholesalers are one of eight roles in all SCOUTRE solutions; the full mechanism is in what SCOUTRE does.
What problems does this solve?
Wholesaling breaks in four predictable places: a number guessed instead of calculated, a Saturday of captures that never gets worked, mail that looks like everyone else's, and no read on whether there is room to buy.
I got a contract accepted and then could not assign it
The offer step does that arithmetic for you and returns a verdict on the deal, with every intermediate number shown. The ARV feeding it comes from nearby sold comparable sales you control. The spread is calculated rather than remembered.
I drove four neighbourhoods on Saturday and had contacted four owners by Wednesday
Pulling data on a captured house takes a tap, not twenty minutes. Driving for dollars is one way properties enter the pipeline, and Drive Scout records your route, distance, time and captures, showing today's route in orange and streets you have already driven in red. With no signal, captures save to your phone and upload when the connection returns.
My letter is the sixth yellow letter that homeowner got this year
Mail goes out from the property lead, carrying the actual photo of the house you took in the field. Choose size, layout, photo, headline, message, handwriting style, ink color, logo and headshot. Letter templates include Professional inquiry, Friendly local buyer, and As-is offer. Send once, or run a six-touch campaign where every touch has its own design and message. See postcards and handwritten letters.
I knock without knowing whether there is any room to buy
Estimated equity, estimated mortgage balance, lender, lien position, loan type, original amount, term and maturity date sit on the record before you get out of the car. Both are estimates, not statements of account balance.
Can you find a motivated seller for free?
Yes, and the public record is where every paid dataset starts. County recorders, registers of deeds and county clerks publish deeds, mortgages, liens and foreclosure filings, and assessors publish the owner of record and their separate mailing address. The Massachusetts registries publish at masslandrecords.com; Cook County publishes at cookcountyassessor.com. Searching costs nothing; copies cost a few dollars.
The free route returns no phone number and no speed. Each county is its own site with its own gaps. If you work one county and mail to the owner's mailing address, that is enough and you do not need software.
16 signals before the listing
A motivated seller is an owner whose circumstances, not their asking price, decide the sale: preforeclosure, probate, a tax lien, a house standing vacant two states away. SCOUTRE surfaces that one property at a time. You add the house from the kerb with Property in Front, or by address with Nationwide Property Search, and the 16 distress signals say whether this owner has a reason to sell. Availability varies by property, county and source.
One property at a time, capture to offer
The workflow starts at one property, never at a market-wide list, and every step stays on that record. You add off-market properties one at a time — captured while driving, found by address, or worked from a list you already have.
Spot it and capture it
Stand in front of any house and SCOUTRE identifies the exact parcel. No address needed. Add photos, a voice note and a distress rating from 1 to 5.
Check for room to buy
Estimated value, estimated equity, estimated mortgage balance, lender and lien position. High equity and free and clear most often mean an assignment is possible.
Read the distress cluster
Preforeclosure, probate or inherited, vacant, tax lien, other liens, auction and bank owned most often mean a seller wants speed over price. Availability varies by property, county and source.
Trace the owner
A trace returns phone numbers classified wireless or landline, plus emails and a mailing address per owner. Every trace is screened against Federal DNC, State DNC, DMA suppression, and known-litigator flags.
Run the six steps
ARV, Repairs, Motivation, Strategy, Offer, Deal Summary, across six exits: wholesale assignment, fix and flip, rental, creative finance, double close, and referral or JV.
Put the offer in front of them
Tap a phone number and your own dialer opens, from your real number. Or mail a postcard carrying that house's own photo, from $0.50, with a QR code that pushes a notification back.
The property then sits in an 11-stage pipeline you move by hand: New, Queued, Called, Texted, Contacted, Analyzing, Offer Sent, Negotiating, Under Contract, Closed, Dead. SCOUTRE does not log calls, emails or texts back onto the lead.
What comes back on a property?
SCOUTRE covers 160 million U.S. properties at roughly 95% coverage. Coverage varies by county. The record answers two questions first: who can sign, and how much is owed.
- 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, maturity date, and full loan history.
- Sale history, last sale price and date, down payment at last sale, deeds, taxes and assessments.
- Beds, baths, square footage, lot size, year built, zoning, land use, MLS status, rental information, Street View and nearby comparable sales.
Equity and mortgage figures are estimates derived from recorded loan history and assessed values. They are not statements of account balance.
SCOUTRE flags 16 distress and opportunity signals, derived from county records:
- 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. The volume wholesaler running a ten-thousand-piece-a-month list-and-mail machine is a bad fit.
There is no CSV import and no export today, and each account is a single user — no teams, no seats, no shared pipelines, so a cold-calling team or a virtual assistant cannot be added. 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. Coverage varies by county.
What does SCOUTRE cost for a wholesaler?
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, charged on approval. 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
What does the offer step actually return?
The offer step returns target assignment fee, wholesaler-paid costs, safety buffer, formula MAO, maximum seller contract price, true MAO, opening offer, target contract price, absolute ceiling, and a verdict on the deal. That is a wholesaler's whole spreadsheet, on the phone, at the house.
Are SCOUTRE postcards cheaper than my mail house?
Not at volume. Every SCOUTRE piece carries a photo of that house, which a bulk run cannot do. If you mail ten thousand generic pieces a month on a bulk contract, a mail house is cheaper per piece. SCOUTRE is built for the properties you chose.
Can my acquisitions manager or virtual assistant work my pipeline?
No. Leads cannot be assigned and a second person cannot log in; the account is built for one operator. A wholesaler running a cold-calling team, or handing work to a virtual assistant, should keep a team CRM alongside SCOUTRE.
How do you know if a property owner is a motivated seller?
Motivation shows up in the county record before it shows up in a conversation. Preforeclosure, probate, a tax lien, vacancy, absentee ownership and a long-term owner each give someone 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.
What share of owners come back with a working number?
The source behind a trace holds 150M+ US residential records in the skip-trace source, and the published figure is a 70-95% provider-reported match range; input quality matters. That is the provider's number, not a measured SCOUTRE rate. Hit rates vary by property and county.
Does SCOUTRE produce the purchase and assignment contracts?
No. What comes out is the analysis, a personalized offer email with the details merged in, and a PDF report covering property, owner, comps, ARV, repairs, motivation, exit strategy, offers and verdict. The contract is yours, from your attorney or title company.
Price the next house while you are still parked outside it
3 days free, then $79 per month. Deal analysis to a true MAO, unmetered skip tracing and postcards from $0.50. Cancel anytime.
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