US Motivated Seller Leads (For-Sale-By-Owner)

Find motivated home sellers across the US — for-sale-by-owner listings scored by how likely the seller is to need help (price cuts, long time on market, short sales, sellers open to working with an agent). Built for real-estate investors, wholesalers, agents and lenders who want seller leads, not another raw listings dump.

Every other FSBO scraper just dumps listings. This one scores each one for motivation and lets you filter to only the sellers worth calling.

What you get per lead

Owner name, full property address, price, and the signals that matter:

• motivationScore (0-100) and motivationReasons — why it scored that way
• isPriceReduced — the owner already cut the price
• daysOnMarket — how long it's been sitting (stale = motivated)
• shortSale, leaseToOwn, willWorkWithBuyersAgent
• beds, baths, sqft, lot size, year built, property type, photos, description

{
  "source": "forsalebyowner",
  "listingId": "6a474f30391aff56820592e6",
  "listingUrl": "https://www.forsalebyowner.com/listing/203-Paul-Knox-Street-Huntsville-TX-77320/6a474f...",
  "ownerName": "Mark Thompson",
  "streetAddress": "203 Paul Knox Street",
  "city": "Huntsville", "county": "Walker", "state": "TX", "postalCode": "77320",
  "price": 165000,
  "isPriceReduced": true,
  "beds": 3, "baths": 2, "sqft": 1450, "yearBuilt": 1998, "propertyType": "house",
  "listingDate": "2026-05-02", "daysOnMarket": 62,
  "motivationScore": 55,
  "motivationReasons": ["for-sale-by-owner", "price reduced", "62 days on market", "will work with a buyer agent"],
  "willWorkWithBuyersAgent": true, "shortSale": false, "leaseToOwn": false,
  "phone": null, "email": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-03T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Inputs

Input	What it does
states	Whole US states to pull from (e.g. Texas has ~40,000 owner listings). Pick one or many.
cities	Target specific cities instead — one per line with the state, e.g. Austin, TX, Miami, FL. Ideal for farming one market.
zipCodes	Target exact 5-digit ZIP codes, e.g. 78704, 33139. The most precise option for neighborhood farming.
propertyTypes	Optional: house / condo / townhouse / multi-family / land. Empty = all.
onlyPriceReduced	Only sellers who have already cut the price.
minDaysOnMarket	Only listings sitting at least this many days.
minMotivationScore	Only leads scoring at least this (0 = all, 40+ = clearly motivated).
maxItems	Optional cap. Blank = pull everything matching.
proxyConfiguration	US residential proxy (required — the source only answers US IPs).

About owner phone/email

For-sale-by-owner sites deliberately hide the owner's direct phone behind a "contact seller" form, and every public skip-trace source is anti-bot-protected. So this actor ships the reliable, high-value core: owner name + exact property address + motivation score. That is exactly what a skip-trace needs — investors run those names/addresses through their own skip-trace to get the phone (the industry-standard workflow). The phone/email fields are included but left empty rather than guessed.

How it works

ForSaleByOwner.com serves its listings from a public JSON API (no login, no captcha). The actor queries it per state through a US residential proxy, pages through every listing, computes a motivation score from the seller signals, applies your filters, and streams leads out as it goes.

Use cases

• Wholesalers / investors building a call list of motivated sellers.
• Agents hunting for-sale-by-owner sellers likely to list with an agent.
• Lenders and iBuyers monitoring price-reduced and stale inventory by market.