Running an Investor Search

The investor search is the core feature of Deal Run. It answers the question every wholesaler asks first: who is buying properties near my deal? Instead of manually combing through county records, driving neighborhoods, or paying for stale lists, Deal Run identifies active investors in real time using the same public record data that powers platforms costing five to fifty times more.

This guide walks you through every step of running a search, reading the results, and understanding what each data point tells you about a potential buyer.

Starting a search

Navigate to the Find Buyers page from your sidebar (desktop) or bottom navigation bar (mobile). You will see a search bar at the top of the screen prompting you to enter a property address.

Type any U.S. property address into the search bar. Deal Run uses an autocomplete system that pulls from a nationwide property database, so you will see matching addresses populate as you type. Select the correct address from the dropdown. This is the address your search will be centered on -- every investor result you see will be measured by their proximity to this location.

You do not need to have a deal under contract at this address to run a search. You can search around any address to scout buyer activity in a neighborhood, evaluate whether a market has enough investor demand before pursuing a deal, or simply research who is active in a particular area.

How the search works behind the scenes

When you click search, Deal Run queries public property records to identify two types of investors near your deal:

Landlords: Investors who own rental properties in the area. These are people who own property but do not live there, which means they are using it as a rental or investment. The search focuses on recent buyers (within your lookback period) to surface active acquirers rather than long-term holders.

Flippers: Investors who buy, renovate, and resell properties. These are identified by short ownership periods — someone who buys a property and sells it within months is almost certainly flipping.

Results are merged and deduplicated. Investors who appear in both categories — someone who holds rentals and also flips — are classified as "Both" and receive a purple marker on the map.

Understanding the map view

After the search completes, results are displayed on an interactive map centered on your search address. The map uses color-coded markers to help you instantly identify investor types at a glance:

• Green markers -- Landlords. These investors own rental properties in the area. They buy and hold for cash flow.
• Blue markers -- Flippers. These investors buy, renovate, and resell. They are looking for distressed properties below market value.
• Purple markers -- Both. These investors operate both strategies. They may flip some properties and keep others as rentals depending on the deal.

Each marker represents a property that an investor has purchased within your specified timeframe and radius. Clicking a marker on the map highlights the corresponding investor card in the list view and scrolls to it. You can zoom in and out to see geographic clustering -- if you notice a concentration of green markers in a particular subdivision, that tells you landlords are actively accumulating rentals in that area, which is a strong buy signal.

Your search address is marked with a distinct pin at the center of the map so you always have a visual anchor point.

Understanding the list view

Below the map (or beside it on desktop), results appear as a scrollable list of investor cards. Each card contains the key information you need to evaluate whether this investor is a good fit for your deal:

• Entity name: The name of the individual or LLC that purchased the property. LLC names are formatted with proper capitalization for readability (e.g., "Harkor Homes LLC" instead of "HARKOR HOMES LLC").
• Investor type badge: Green for landlord, blue for flipper, purple for both.
• Properties in area: How many properties this investor has purchased within your search radius during the lookback period. An investor with 8 purchases in the area is clearly more active than one with 1.
• Total portfolio (nationwide): The total number of properties this investor owns across the entire country. This helps you distinguish between a local investor with 3 properties and a national operator with 200+ properties who happens to also buy in your market.
• Last purchase date: When this investor most recently acquired a property in the area. More recent purchases indicate an investor who is actively buying right now, not someone who was active two years ago and has since moved on.
• Distance: How far this investor's nearest purchase is from your search address. Closer investors are more likely to be interested in your deal because they already know the neighborhood.
• Property specs: Details about the properties the investor has purchased, including year built, lot size, garage, pool, and other features that reveal what property types they prefer.

Filter pills

At the top of the results area, you will see filter pills that let you narrow the list:

• All: Shows every investor (default).
• Flippers: Shows only blue-marker investors who buy and resell quickly.
• Landlords: Shows only green-marker investors who hold properties as rentals.
• Both: Shows only purple-marker investors who do both strategies.

Use these filters to focus your outreach. If you have a heavily distressed property that needs $60,000 in repairs, you probably want to focus on flippers -- they have the renovation infrastructure to handle it. If you have a turnkey rental in a good school district with strong rents, landlords are your target.

Nationwide portfolio data

One of Deal Run's most powerful data points is the nationwide portfolio view. For each investor in your results, you see two numbers: properties in the search area and total properties nationwide. This is pulled from public records across all U.S. counties, not just the local market.

Why this matters: an LLC that owns 3 properties in your search radius might look like a small-time landlord. But if they own 150 properties nationwide, they are actually a large-scale operator -- the kind of buyer who can close quickly, pay cash, and buy multiple deals from you over time. This context completely changes how you should approach and pitch them.

Investor cards display this as "X in area / Y total" so you can see both numbers at a glance.

Deal searches and usage

Each deal search consumes one search from your monthly allocation:

• Pro plan ($99/mo, $999/yr): 15 deal searches per month, up to 250 investors per deal
• Pro+ plan ($199/mo, $1,999/yr): 50 deal searches per month, up to 500 investors per deal
• Teams plan ($249/mo, $2,499/yr annual only): 100 deal searches per month, up to 500 investors per deal (Coming Soon)

Your remaining search count is displayed in the search interface so you always know where you stand. Searches reset at the beginning of each billing cycle. Unused searches do not roll over. Skip tracing is free on all paid plans -- every investor in your results can be traced at no extra cost.

A deal search is consumed when you execute a new search at a new address. Changing filters (flipper/landlord/both) or adjusting the map view on existing results does not consume additional searches. If you search the same address twice in the same billing cycle, Deal Run uses cached results from your first search at no additional cost.

What to do after your search

Once you have your results, the typical workflow is:

1. Review the list and identify the most promising investors based on activity level, proximity, and type match for your deal.
2. Select investors you want to contact by checking the checkbox on their cards.
3. Skip trace your selected investors to get their phone numbers and email addresses.
4. Add them to your buyer list so you have a persistent database of qualified buyers you can market to on future deals.
5. Reach out via phone, email, or SMS with your deal details.

The investors Deal Run identifies are not random contacts pulled from a purchased list. They are verified active investors with documented purchase history in the specific area around your deal. That is why the response rates from Deal Run investor searches are dramatically higher than cold outreach to generic lists -- you are contacting people who have already proven they buy in that market at that price point.

For a deeper understanding of how results are ranked, see Understanding Investor Score.