Probate Lead FinderWake County, NC

Pre-Probate Lead Detection

Automatically finds Wake County residential properties where the owner has died but probate hasn't been filed yet — by detecting EST, ESTATE OF, and HEIRS OF designations in county ownership records and month-over-month name changes.

Properties Monitored

~380,000

Active Leads

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Avg Lead Value

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Last Updated

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Min score

Lead Queue

0 leads · sorted by score

Wake Data

Data source: Wake County Tax Extract · undefined

What gets flagged

ESTOwner name ends in EST

ESTATE OFName prefixed with ESTATE OF

HEIRS OFName prefixed with HEIRS OF

Name changeAny month-over-month ownership transfer

ETLEstate at law designation

DECEASEDDeceased in owner field

Lead score factors

Assessed value

40 pts

Equity ratio (value / sale price)

25 pts

Building age (older = more equity)

15 pts

Residential land use

10 pts

Indicator type (EST = highest)

10 pts

Data Sources

Wake County Tax Extract (daily)Wake ArcGIS FeatureServer NC eCourts (probate verification)Wake Register of Deeds

Run the detector

cd scripts/probate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python lead_detector.py
# or limit to top 25:
python lead_detector.py --top 25 --min-value 200000

Outputs to scripts/probate/reports/

Phase 3 In Progress

Detection engine built — wiring live dashboard

Wake County data confirmed. Python script downloads the daily XLSX extract, diffs against last snapshot, scores every estate record 0–100, and exports a ranked CSV report with NC eCourts links. Phase 3 connects script output to this dashboard in real time.

Phase 1

Data source research & API mapping

Wake County XLSX · ArcGIS FeatureServer · eCourts confirmed

Phase 2

Lead detection script (Python)

lead_detector.py — scoring, diff snapshots, CSV export

Phase 3

Live dashboard + alerts

CSV → API route wired ✓ · Next: cron + email alerts