What is a distressed property feed for real estate agents?

A distressed property feed is an automated daily scan of an agent's MLS market that identifies listings showing distress signals: repeated price cuts, extended days on market, and listing remarks containing language like as-is, investor special, estate sale, short sale, foreclosure, or motivated seller. Each flagged listing is scored and the strongest opportunities are delivered to the agent by email every morning, so agents serving investor clients see the best deals before competitors who rely on manual MLS searches.

What distress signals does the system detect in MLS listings?

The system evaluates four signal categories per listing: total price drop from the original list price including the number and timing of cuts, days on market compared to the area median, distress keywords detected by AI in the public and agent remarks fields (as-is, investor, handyman, estate, probate, short sale, foreclosure, motivated, needs TLC, cash only), and the spread between the current list price and an estimated after repair value calculated from recent comparable sales.

Where does the MLS data come from and is it licensed?

The data comes from the agent's or brokerage's own MLS feed, accessed through the MLS's approved API program (such as a RESO Web API connection through an approved vendor) under the brokerage's existing data agreement. The system does not scrape listing portals or resell MLS data. Each deployment is configured within the data licensing terms of the specific MLS the agent belongs to.

How are distressed listings scored?

Each flagged listing receives a 0 to 100 distress score built from weighted factors: price drop percentage and cut frequency, days on market relative to the local median, the strength and count of distress keywords found in remarks, and the estimated ARV spread. Scores above roughly 85 indicate listings with multiple strong signals, typically several price cuts combined with explicit distress language. The weighting is tuned per market during setup.

How is the daily digest delivered?

The top scored listings are formatted into a morning email digest and sent through Saleshandy at a fixed time, typically 7 AM local time. The digest shows each property's address, list price, total price drop, days on market, the detected signal, the estimated ARV, and the score, with the complete flagged list attached as a CSV. The digest can go to a single agent, a team, or a brokerage's full roster of investor focused agents.

Can the feed cover multiple markets or MLS regions?

Yes. Each market runs as its own scan with its own MLS connection, scoring calibration, and digest. A brokerage operating across several metro areas can run parallel feeds, each tuned to that market's median days on market and price behavior, with digests routed to the agents covering each territory.

How is the ARV estimate calculated?

The estimated after repair value is calculated automatically from recent sold comparables in the listing's immediate area, adjusted for square footage and bed and bath count. It is a screening estimate intended to rank opportunities, not an appraisal. Agents and their investor clients verify ARV through their own comps and inspection before making offers.

AI Automation · Real Estate

A daily distressed property feed for agents who sell to investors

Every morning, this system pulls your MLS feed through approved API access, detects distress signals across every active listing in your market, scores each one, and emails you the 5 strongest opportunities. Price drop history, days on market, foreclosure and as-is keywords, and an estimated ARV spread. Before your competition has opened the MLS.

Distress signals detected per listing

7:00 AM

Digest hits your inbox daily

0 hrs

Manual MLS scrolling required

Today's Distressed Feed Tampa, FL · Jun 12

4112 Cypress Hollow Dr

94 DOM · as-is keyword

−14.8%

228 Palmetto Bend Ct

61 DOM · 3rd price cut

−11.2%

1530 Gandy Shore Ln

48 DOM · estate sale

−8.5%

The problem

Investor deals die in the gap between listing data and agent attention

The distress signals are already in the MLS. Price cut history, days on market, remarks fields full of "sold as-is," "investor special," "estate sale," "needs TLC." The agents who win investor business are the ones who see those signals first. Today that means manual scrolling, saved searches that fire on the wrong criteria, and deals found three days late.

Without the feed

Manual MLS scrolling every morning

Saved searches alert on price and beds, not on distress language buried in remarks
Price drop history requires opening each listing one at a time
No scoring. A 3% cut on day 12 looks the same as a 15% cut on day 90
Investors call the agent who texted them the deal first. Usually not you

With the feed

Every listing scanned, scored, and ranked before 7 AM

Full market scan through your approved MLS API connection, every single day
AI reads agent remarks for as-is, foreclosure, short sale, estate, and motivated seller language
Each listing gets a distress score from price drop %, DOM, signals, and ARV spread
Top 5 land in your inbox as a clean digest you can forward to your investor list

Interactive demo · sample market: Tampa, FL

This is what the agent sees. Press Run today's scan to watch the feed populate, then open the scoring and email tabs to see how each deal is ranked and delivered.

Distressed Feed · Tampa, FL

Every active listing in the market, filtered to distress

The scan pulls the full active inventory through the MLS API, drops anything without a distress signal, and ranks what remains. Address, current list price, total price drop from original list, days on market, the strongest signal detected, and an estimated after repair value.

Property	List Price	Price Drop	DOM	Signal Detected	Est. ARV	Score
Press "Run today's scan" to pull this morning's distressed listings.

0 listings flaggedSource: agent's MLS feed via approved API access · refreshed daily 6:30 AM

How 4112 Cypress Hollow Dr scored a 92

Every flagged listing is scored on four weighted factors. The score is what separates a genuinely distressed deal from a listing that just had one small price adjustment. Here is the breakdown for today's top result.

Scoring factors

Total price drop from original list−14.8%+30

Days on market vs. area median (31)94 days+24

Distress keywords in remarks"as-is", "investor"+22

ARV spread vs. list price+38%+16

Distress score92 / 100

What the AI read in the listing

              "Sold as-is. Great opportunity for an investor or handy buyer. Roof 2009, HVAC original. Seller is motivated and reviewing all offers. Priced well below recent comps for a quick sale."
            

Price history: listed at $389,000 on Mar 10, cut to $364,900 on Apr 14, cut to $344,500 on May 22, cut to $331,400 on Jun 9. Three cuts in 91 days plus distress language equals a seller who will take an investor offer seriously.

The digest the agent receives every morning

Top 5 deals, scored and summarized, delivered through the agent's sending platform at 7 AM. Agents forward it to their investor list or pick up the phone. Either way, they are first.

Inbox · today, 7:00 AM1 of 1

Fromdeals@yourbrokerage.com

Toyou@yourbrokerage.com

Subject5 distressed listings in Tampa today · top score 92

Good morning. The scan flagged 11 distressed listings out of 2,847 active. Here are the 5 strongest:

1. 4112 Cypress Hollow Dr · Score 92

$331,400 · −14.8% (3 cuts) · 94 DOM · as-is · Est. ARV $458K

2. 228 Palmetto Bend Ct · Score 87

$298,500 · −11.2% (3 cuts) · 61 DOM · motivated seller · Est. ARV $395K

3. 1530 Gandy Shore Ln · Score 74

$412,000 · −8.5% (2 cuts) · 48 DOM · estate sale · Est. ARV $510K

4. 877 Seminole Heights Ave · Score 71

$249,900 · −9.1% (2 cuts) · 72 DOM · needs TLC · Est. ARV $340K

5. 3094 Riverview Oak Trl · Score 68

$365,000 · −7.7% (2 cuts) · 55 DOM · short sale · Est. ARV $452K

Full flagged list (11) attached as CSV. Reply STOP DEAL on any address to suppress it from future digests.

How it works

Three steps between the MLS and your inbox

No new software for the agent to learn. The system runs in the background and delivers to email.

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Step 1

Pull the full active inventory from your MLS

Every morning at 6:30 AM the system queries your MLS feed through approved API access, pulling every active listing with full price history, DOM, and agent remarks for your target market.

Connected through your MLS's approved data API, set up under your brokerage's existing data agreement.

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Step 2

n8n filters, the AI reads remarks, every deal gets scored

An n8n workflow filters out clean listings, sends the rest through an AI pass that reads remarks for distress language, calculates price drop and DOM factors, estimates ARV from recent comps, and assigns the score.

Orchestrated by n8n. Results logged to Google Sheets for the full flagged history.

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Step 3

Saleshandy delivers the digest at 7 AM sharp

The top 5 deals are formatted into the daily digest and sent through Saleshandy to the agent, the team, or the brokerage's full investor agent roster. Same subject pattern every day so it never gets lost.

Delivered by Saleshandy. Works with Gmail and any inbox.