Guides to reading Dallas, Collin, Tarrant, Bexar and Johnson County foreclosure filings — how to read a notice of substitute trustee sale, what an assignment chain proves, and where public records stop short of an answer. Each one is kept current against the record rather than left at the date it was written.
Where to stand, how bidding runs, what funds are accepted, and what happens in the hour after you win a Dallas County trustee sale.
County RecordsA pending-litigation notice is not a foreclosure, not a lien and not a judgment. What it does mean, and how to find the suit behind it.
County RecordsOne page, seven facts, and a great deal of careful silence. What each part of the notice establishes, and what people routinely read into it that is not there.
Dallas ForeclosuresWhere Dallas County foreclosure notices are filed, when they appear, and how to go from the county's list to a property you can actually evaluate.
Foreclosure InvestingThe appraisal record names an owner; the deed says how they got the property and whether anyone else is on title. Check both before you reach out.
Foreclosure InvestingWhich liens survive a trustee's sale, which are wiped, and how to find them in the county record before you bid.
Foreclosure InvestingThe number on the notice is what was borrowed. What is owed today is not in any public record. Here is how to use the spread without fooling yourself.
Texas Foreclosure ProcessA posting is not a sale. The trustee's deed is the record that settles it, and it appears weeks later.
County RecordsThree instruments that sit next to each other in a clerk's index and mean entirely different things about a loan.
County RecordsFrom the deed of trust to its assignments and release: how to follow one loan through the clerk's index and know who holds it now.
County RecordsThe Dallas County Clerk's real property index has no address field. Here is how to find every document recorded against a parcel anyway.
Property ResearchThe five records that answer whether a posted foreclosure is worth your time: the notice, the appraisal, the deed chain, the mortgages, and the liens.
Texas Foreclosure ProcessFirst Tuesday sales, the 21-day posting rule, substitute trustees, cash bids, and what a trustee's deed does to the liens behind it.
Collin County ForeclosuresCollin County publishes every filed foreclosure notice on a public app with the appraisal record attached. Here is how to read it, and what it leaves out.
Your agent monitors both counties every morning, enriches each filing against public records, and emails only the properties that match your criteria.
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