A real estate investor wanted to stop pulling six property lists, stacking them by hand and guessing which owners to call. The app pulls the county appraisal roll and the city's code concerns, matches the records that belong to the same property, drops the duplicates, and ranks every parcel by who is most likely to sell. Paid Monday night. Live Tuesday lunchtime. Rebuilt around the owner's review notes by dinner.
It installs from the browser, no app store. The front door takes access requests, and the owner decides who gets in.
Open DealSignal →The application came in at 7:06 on a Monday morning as a developer brief: collect property and public record data from several sources, match the records that belong to the same property or owner, clean out the duplicates, find the distress signals, estimate equity, give every property a 0 to 100 score, rank them, filter them, send the chosen owners to skip tracing, export to CSV. Dallas County first. The call was at 3:30 that afternoon, the offer went out at 8:21pm, and the payment landed at 8:27pm. The owner's words: "I was going to attempt this on my own being an IT guy but I will let the pros handle it."
Tuesday at 12:59pm the app was live with 309,606 real Dallas County parcels loaded and scored off the appraisal roll and the city's code concerns. Absentee, out of state, probate deeds, code violations, value drops and vacant lots were live that first afternoon, and every score opened to its reasons.
Motivation, equity and urgency, blended into one number. Open any property and every reason is there with the points it added, dated from the record it came from. A foreclosure posted yesterday outscores one from three months ago.
An alert fires when a signal lands that was not on the property before. Watch a property and it is re-read nightly; anything that moves lands in Alerts. The rules are the owner's: three or more distress signals and 40 percent equity, probate and absentee, whatever the next one is.
Texas keeps sale prices private, so equity needs the loan. A property data provider fills in the loan balance, the recorded deed of trust and the market value per property, on the owner's own account, and the score updates the moment it lands.
Skip tracing is optional and never a subscription. Connect a pay per record provider in Settings and the button works, or export any list in the columns a trace service asks for and run it wherever you already do.
Tuesday at 3pm, two hours after launch, the owner went through the app on a video call and sent the notes as they came: every alert should answer "why now, how motivated, what changed, what next" in three seconds; replace the phrase "signals stacked on one property" with the actual signals; a 74 means nothing on its own, show the points; and the scoring was double counting, because an out of state owner is already an absentee owner. All of it was right. By 6:11pm the app was DealSignal: the stacked phrase gone and the real signals in its place, the score split into motivation, equity and urgency, absentee at 8 with out of state adding 4 on top instead of another 15, foreclosures scored by age, probate split from inherited, the owner's seven outcomes in the pipeline, and skip tracing made optional with an export for anyone who traces elsewhere. By 8:09pm the data provider was wired and all 309,606 parcels re-scored.