Absentee Owner Lead List Builder — County Assessor Rolls

Build absentee-owner lead lists straight from official county assessor / parcel rolls — no scraping of paywalled lead vendors, no stale resold data. The actor pulls live parcel records, compares the property (situs) address against the owner's tax-bill mailing address, and classifies every parcel into an absentee tier, so you can pull a targeted list of out-of-state landlords, tired out-of-town owners, or LLC-held inventory in minutes.

Covered jurisdictions (v1):

County key	Source	What you get
cook-il	Cook County Assessor Parcel Universe (Socrata, latest assessment year auto-resolved)	Full mismatch classification + owner mailing address
philadelphia-pa	Philadelphia OPA Properties (Carto SQL API)	Full mismatch classification + market value
nyc	NYC PLUTO (Socrata)	Owner-name lists only — see limitation below

Who this is for

• Wholesalers & flippers — pull every out-of-state owner of residential parcels in Cook County and start driving for dollars with a real list.
• Direct-mail investors — export mailing name + address columns, dedupe, and drop a campaign; the tier field lets you segment "out-of-state" vs "same city, different address."
• Real-estate agents & farm builders — find absentee landlords in your farm area likely to sell.
• Data / prop-tech teams — a clean, unified JSON schema across counties, callable as an API or MCP tool.

Example input

{
  "county": "cook-il",
  "absenteeTier": "out_of_state",
  "propertyClassPrefix": "2",
  "entityOnly": false,
  "maxResults": 100
}

Filters:

• county — cook-il | philadelphia-pa | nyc
• absenteeTier — any | out_of_state | out_of_city (alias out_of_county) | same_area_diff_address | owner_occupied_likely
• entityOnly — keep only LLC / trust / corp / partnership owners
• propertyClassPrefix — source class-code prefix (Cook 2 = residential, 5 = commercial; PLUTO A = one-family; OPA 1 = single family)
• minAssessedValue — value floor (Philadelphia market_value, NYC assesstot; not available for Cook)
• maxResults — cost cap, up to 10,000 rows per run

Output fields (one row per parcel lead)

county, parcel_id, situs_address, situs_city, situs_state, owner_name, owner_mailing_address, owner_mailing_city, owner_mailing_state, owner_mailing_zip, absentee_tier, entity_flag, assessed_value, property_class, property_class_desc, lat, lon, source, source_url

The absentee-tier classifier

Tier	Meaning
out_of_state	Mailing state differs from the property state — the strongest absentee/motivated-seller signal
out_of_city	Mailing city differs, same state (out-of-town landlord)
same_area_diff_address	Same city, different street address (local landlord)
owner_occupied_likely	Mailing address matches the property (street-normalized; same-building condo units count as matches)
unknown	No mailing data in the source (all nyc rows)

entity_flag is true when the owner name matches LLC, L.L.C., LP, LLP, LTD, TRUST, TR, CORP, INC, CO, COMPANY, PARTNERS, HOLDINGS, PROPERTIES, or BANK — combine entityOnly: true with a tier for investor-owned absentee inventory.

Honest limitation: the NYC leg

NYC PLUTO publishes owner names but no owner mailing address, so the situs-vs-mailing comparison is impossible for NYC in v1. The nyc county therefore ships as a corporate/LLC-owner flag list (absentee_tier is always unknown; use entityOnly: true). Mailing-address enrichment for NYC is on the roadmap.

Other notes: Cook County's Parcel Universe has no assessed-value column, so assessed_value is null and minAssessedValue is ignored for cook-il. Tiers are heuristics computed from address strings — verify before making offers.

Use as an MCP tool

This actor is callable by AI agents (Claude, Cursor, etc.) via mcp.apify.com — the input and output schemas are fully described at field level, so an agent can request e.g. "out-of-state entity owners of multi-family parcels in Cook County" and chain the resulting leads into skip-tracing or CRM tools.

FAQ

How do I find absentee owners of a property for free? County assessor rolls are public record. This actor automates the pull and the situs-vs-mailing comparison across Cook County IL, Philadelphia PA, and NYC, and gives you export-ready JSON/CSV.

How do I get a list of out-of-state property owners in Chicago / Cook County? Run with county: "cook-il", absenteeTier: "out_of_state", propertyClassPrefix: "2" (residential). Each row includes the owner's out-of-state mailing address for direct mail.

Can I get absentee owner leads for Philadelphia? Yes — county: "philadelphia-pa" classifies every OPA parcel by mailing mismatch and includes market_value so you can set a value floor.

How do I find LLC-owned properties in NYC? Run county: "nyc" with entityOnly: true (optionally propertyClassPrefix like "C" for walk-up apartments). PLUTO has no mailing addresses, so NYC rows are owner-name flag lists.

Is this data legal to use for marketing? The sources are official open-data portals published for public use. You are responsible for complying with local telemarketing/mail regulations (e.g. do-not-call lists).

How fresh is the data? Live at run time. The Cook leg auto-resolves the latest assessment year in the Parcel Universe; Philadelphia OPA and NYC PLUTO are updated by their agencies on their own cycles.

Pricing

Pay per result row — you only pay for the leads you pull (set maxResults to cap spend). Empty runs cost virtually nothing.