Birmingham Distress Signals

General Search

Start with a saved view, then narrow by ZIP, neighborhood, owner type, or search.

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Commercial/industrial Vacant land Zoning/use check Owner portfolio Owner special type Tax status detail Code case detail Min market value Max market value County tax-lien years are official auction/list years; use 2025+ for the current 2026 auction cycle.

Tax delinquent Current tax cycle Repeated tax years Foreclosure/legal foreclosure Land bank/quiet title Probate/estate Any legal event Code enforcement Auction notice Possible bankruptcy Absentee owner Exclude public agencies

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This uses the local score snapshot from each refresh. Baseline is already set, so future refreshes should show the true changes here.

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Upcoming dated rows are closest to actionable. Undated APN radar snippets often say “click view”; paste the full text from APN when available to promote them into parsed sale notices.

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Saved Lists

Build focused working lists, then export them for review or field work.

Probate

Probate is separate from generic manual review. Matched rows are linked to a parcel; candidate rows are name matches that still need confirmation.

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Candidate parcels are research leads, not confirmed property matches.

High-likelihood property match Has other distress signals

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All Legal Notices

Search the deduped legal-event archive across Messenger, Western Star, Birmingham Times, APN captures, and imported court records.

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Generic manual review excludes probate-name candidates. Use the Probate tab for estate/probate matching.

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Data Health

Source updater status, last successful captures, and what is still source-limited.

Updater

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One-Click APN Capture

Use this when APN opens after CAPTCHA but the saved links later fail. Drag the button below to your browser bookmarks bar once. Then, while viewing an APN result or full notice page, click that bookmark.

Send APN page to this app

Keep this dashboard running while you use the bookmark. If APN shows full notice text, the app parses it. If APN only shows snippets, the app saves radar records.

Paste APN Page

Fallback: on APN, press Command-A, Command-C, then paste here. This avoids saving or uploading files.

Distress Scoring

These sliders change the distress score shown in this browser. Tax is age-weighted and repeated tax years add only a small capped bonus.

Current Data Shape

Advanced Maintenance

These run the same local maintenance paths used by the automatic updater. Use them when you want to check storage or clean old raw files immediately.

Storage audit

Full maintenance

Compact old Accela HTML

Prune old exports

Prune old DB backups

Vacuum database

Automatic maintenance still runs in the background when the updater is active.

Manual Imports

No-cost fallback lanes for sources that are interactive or gated.

Tax status CSV template

Bankruptcy CSV template

Legal notice text import folder

Full free refresh command

General Search

Saved Lists

Probate

All Legal Notices

Data Health

One-Click APN Capture

Paste APN Page

Distress Scoring

Current Data Shape

Advanced Maintenance

Manual Imports

Add Selected Properties To A List