Vacant land leads
Cold calling for land investors
Land owners rarely list, often live in another state, and many inherited a lot they have never seen. We skip trace your vacant land list and call every owner, so you get the ones ready to sell with the access, utilities, taxes and price already asked.
Why call land owners
Land deals start with a conversation
Vacant land has no tenant, no mortgage payment to miss and often no one checking on it, so the usual distress signals are quiet. What the owner has is a tax bill every year for something they do not use. Many bought it decades ago or inherited it, and live far from it.
A letter or a blind offer can sit in a drawer for months. A call finds out in a few minutes whether the owner still wants the land, what they know about it, and what number would make it worth their trouble.
The facts that decide a land deal, like road access, utilities and back taxes, are also the facts an owner can usually answer on the phone, and they save you due diligence on parcels that were never going to work.
On the call
What our callers find out
- That they still own it, and how they came to own it: bought, inherited or part of a larger tract.
- Whether they would sell, and what they would want for it.
- Access. Road frontage, an easement, or landlocked.
- Utilities nearby: power, water, sewer or septic, as far as they know.
- Back taxes, liens or HOA dues on the parcel.
- A survey, or what they know about the boundaries.
- Who else is on the title, because inherited land often has several owners who all have to agree.
Every call is recorded, and each owner who wants an offer reaches you the same day with these notes.
The list
Building a land list worth calling
Most land investors pull their lists from county parcel data or a data provider, filtered by the vacant land use codes, the acreage range they buy, and owners whose mailing address is out of the area. Long ownership and unpaid taxes push a parcel up the list.
Send us the list. We skip trace every owner to a phone number, scrub it against the Do Not Call registry, and a dedicated caller works it during allowed hours. The calling rules are in is real estate cold calling legal? Many owners on a land list live in another state, so callers time each call to the owner’s time zone.
Common questions
About cold calling vacant land owners
Does cold calling work for land investing?
It works well alongside mail. A call reaches owners who never answer letters, and in a few minutes it answers the questions that decide a land deal: whether they would sell, access, utilities, back taxes and the price they have in mind.
Where do I get a list of vacant land owners?
From county parcel data or a data provider, filtered by vacant land use codes, the acreage you buy and out-of-area mailing addresses. We skip trace the list to phone numbers before anyone dials.
What should I ask a land owner on the first call?
Whether they still own it and would sell, how they came to own it, road access, utilities, back taxes or liens, whether there is a survey, who else is on the title, and what they would want for it.
Can you call my land list?
Yes. Send the list, we skip trace and scrub it, and a dedicated caller works it. Real estate investors get the first week of calling free.
Find the land owners ready to sell
Real estate investors: your first week of calling is free. If we don’t hand you at least 3 sellers who want an offer, you pay nothing.