Free instruments — no email needed
There is no secret. There's data, and there's math — take both.
Every tool below is free, and each one ends in a straight answer about your market — not a spreadsheet you have to decode. They're the same math we run when you pay us. Shown, not hidden.
Instrument 01 · County Scout
What's sitting in your county's records right now
Live distress signals, what sold to investors last month, and how far behind the platform feeds run in your county. 3,143 counties ready.
The kind of answer it gives184 owners headed toward a forced sale · feeds run 7 days behind here — Jackson Co., MO
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Instrument 02 · The Sweet Spot
The monthly budget your market actually supports
Every market has a floor and a ceiling. This computes yours from the county's real universe, measured sale-likelihood tiers, and today's mail prices — assumptions shown, never hidden.
The kind of answer it givesFloor ≈ $2,100/mo · Ceiling ≈ $15,000/mo — Jackson Co., MO at defaults. Or an honest "don't start mail here yet."
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Instrument 03 · Hottest ZIPs · hottestzip.com
Where investors are actually buying, ranked
33,642 ZIPs ranked by investor absorption over the last 12 months — where deals actually changed hands, not where gurus say to go.
The kind of answer it givesPort St. Lucie 34981 — 73% of homes that sold went to investors (GoForClose national data)
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Instrument 04 · Live workshop
Pay Dirt: the money math of direct mail
Who's worth a stamp, what to spend, and when not to mail — a working session with Don Costa (GoForClose partner) and Josh. Markets from the room, math worked live.
What the hour coversThe pay-dirt cut · your floor and ceiling, computed live · the honest cases where mail is the wrong channel
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Why free? Because the instruments are how we'd earn your trust before we ask for anything. If a tool tells you mail isn't right for your market yet, believe it — we'd rather lose the sale than sell you a plan that can't work.
When the instruments say you're ready — two ways in.
Done for you · recommended
We run your mail. You answer the phone.
Set your budget, forget your list — we pull the pay dirt, run the mail, manage the follow-up. A 15-minute market check with Josh: your floor, your ceiling, and straight talk if you're not ready. No pitch.
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Run it yourself
Same pay-dirt list. You hold the reins.
Your county's list — pulled fresh weekly, scored, dead leads scrubbed, mail-ready — and you handle the outreach. That's Fresh, from $298/mo, zero setup.
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