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Distress Signal Classifier

Scores each property on a composite distress index using delinquency status, days on market, and ownership age, surfacing the top 20% for priority outreach before competitors.

Overview

The Distress Signal Classifier automatically scores every property in your target market across multiple distress signals. It prioritizes delinquent and distressed properties so your team focuses on the highest-probability sellers.

What Distress Signal Classifier Solves

Without scoring, your team wastes time calling stable homeowners while missing obvious distress signals sitting in the same database. You have the data but no system to prioritize. Distress Signal Classifier automatically scores each property across delinquency, DOM, ownership age, and recent price changes, surfacing the top 20% distressed properties daily. Your team calls only the properties most likely to sell.

How It Works

Daily property scoring runs against public records, MLS data, and tax databases. Each property receives a distress score, and high-scorers are pushed to your CRM for priority work.

1

Multi-Signal Data Assembly

The agent pulls tax delinquency status, days on market, ownership age, price reduction history, and lien data into a unified scoring model.

Query county tax assessor for delinquency status
Pull MLS DOM and price history for 12 months
Extract ownership tenure and prior sales
Check for liens, foreclosures, and probate notices
2

Composite Distress Scoring

Each signal is weighted (delinquency 40%, DOM 25%, ownership age 20%, price action 15%) and combined into a single 0-100 distress score.

Calculate weighted score for each property
Normalize scores across your target markets
Identify top 20% distress properties
Flag new signals (yesterday's delinquencies) for same-day outreach
3

Priority Routing to CRM

Highest-scored properties are pushed to your CRM with distress flags and routed to your acquisition team for immediate outreach.

Create high-distress contacts with score attached
Assign to acquisition agents by territory
Post top signals to team Slack channel
Log score history for ROI tracking

Key Benefits

20% of properties = 80% of deals — focus only on distressed sellers
Automated scoring beats manual review by hours every day
Composite index catches signals manual checkers miss
Priority routing means your best time goes to best prospects
Distress Signal Classifier | The Independent Broker Collective