You can read a property from the driver’s seat faster than any list can score it. The signals below are the ones that keep showing up on deals that close, and each one takes under three seconds to spot at 25 mph.

The roof tells you first

Curling shingles, patched valleys, a blue tarp that has survived two winters. A roof is the most expensive deferred repair on the house, and an owner who has stopped maintaining it has usually stopped planning to stay.

An owner who stopped fixing the roof stopped planning to stay.

What to log before the light changes

– – – Tall grass and a stuffed mailbox, the two fastest reads

– – – Plywood or curtains that never open on a street-facing window

– – – A second notice taped to the door, visible from the curb

Run the numbers on the spot

Pull the value estimate while you are parked. On a recent lead the math looked like this:

Then reach the owner the same afternoon

Deals close on the third to seventh touch. The drive finds the lead, the follow-through closes it. See the full workflow on the home page.

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