Generally speaking, bankruptcy is usually involved, prior or around a home foreclosure.
Just as a heads-up if a home is in foreclosure and the person files bankruptcy, the mortage company will file a Motion For Relief (MFR) from the bankruptcy. Once the MFR is filed and a hearing date set, the agent for the mortage company will attempt to negotiate terms with the attorney for the debtor. Once negotiated a Consent Order (CO) is drawn up, sent around for signatures, and filed with the court. If the debtor's attorney doesn't negotiate and Order Granting Relief (OGR) is filed with the court. The CO will have terms and the debtor is expected to adhere to those terms, otherwise a Notice of Default (NoD) is filed with the court. Dependent on whether there are 'drop dead' terms in the CO, the foreclosure may happen.
As a general rule, mortgage companies strive to avoid foreclosure since they don't get paid so there is a significant amount of time involved to contact the debtor and market to them.
My point with that little synopsis is that there are repeated filings with the court for bankruptcy (prior to foreclosure) and for foreclosure. Generally the states are divided into districts (ex. NC has 3) that publish records. Most courts now publish their calendar online via their website. Also, most states provide some mechanism for court record access, hence how attorneys know about your speeding ticket the next day to send you an advertisement in the mail (I wrote an application that pulls that data from NC's mainframe for a law firm and mailing service). The digital access usually has everything from race, age, sex to mailing address. Unfortunately there is no email field...
Dependent on the type of marketing you were doing, if it's offline you could really use that information to your advantage in targetting people. Online, I'm not sure if this post helps much aside from a brief process overview. If you need more info, I'm available.
Just as a heads-up if a home is in foreclosure and the person files bankruptcy, the mortage company will file a Motion For Relief (MFR) from the bankruptcy. Once the MFR is filed and a hearing date set, the agent for the mortage company will attempt to negotiate terms with the attorney for the debtor. Once negotiated a Consent Order (CO) is drawn up, sent around for signatures, and filed with the court. If the debtor's attorney doesn't negotiate and Order Granting Relief (OGR) is filed with the court. The CO will have terms and the debtor is expected to adhere to those terms, otherwise a Notice of Default (NoD) is filed with the court. Dependent on whether there are 'drop dead' terms in the CO, the foreclosure may happen.
As a general rule, mortgage companies strive to avoid foreclosure since they don't get paid so there is a significant amount of time involved to contact the debtor and market to them.
My point with that little synopsis is that there are repeated filings with the court for bankruptcy (prior to foreclosure) and for foreclosure. Generally the states are divided into districts (ex. NC has 3) that publish records. Most courts now publish their calendar online via their website. Also, most states provide some mechanism for court record access, hence how attorneys know about your speeding ticket the next day to send you an advertisement in the mail (I wrote an application that pulls that data from NC's mainframe for a law firm and mailing service). The digital access usually has everything from race, age, sex to mailing address. Unfortunately there is no email field...
Dependent on the type of marketing you were doing, if it's offline you could really use that information to your advantage in targetting people. Online, I'm not sure if this post helps much aside from a brief process overview. If you need more info, I'm available.