Guide · How we work

Researching one Florida property at a time, instead of building lead lists

Map Views is built for one parcel at a time: type an address, read the report, turn on the layers around it, and write a note on it. It supplies no lists of people to contact and no distress lists: no tax delinquencies, liens, lis pendens, code cases or probate filings, and no way to reach an owner beyond the mailing address on the county roll. Search and export are there, capped at 1,000 properties a day, for the parcels you have already chosen to work.

Map Views · 1 November 2026 · Sources: the Putnam County roll and the Department of Revenue's sale file, FEMA, USFWS, USDA NRCS, Florida DOH, Sunbiz

What we leave out, on purpose

A list tool starts from "who might sell" and works backwards to the land. We start from the land. That choice decides what is on the map and what is not:

• No contact lists. We supply no owner's contact details of any kind, from any source. The owner's name and the mailing address the county sends the tax bill to are the public record, and that is where we stop.
• No distress lists. Tax delinquencies and certificates, liens, lis pendens, code enforcement cases and probate filings are not loaded. There is no "motivated seller" filter, because there is no such data behind one.
• Your own contacts stay yours. You can type, or import from your own file, contact details you already hold into a parcel's notes. They are private to you and your team, and we never add them to anyone else's map.

A worked example: a vacant residential lot in Putnam County

Putnam suits the example because so much of it is platted lots: more than half its parcels carry the state's vacant residential code, most of them a quarter acre or less, sold for a few thousand dollars at a time. Here is what we measured on that kind of lot.

Sales come from the Department of Revenue's file, which for Putnam is complete through May 2026; June is partial, so the twelve months end there.

The steps, on one lot

1. Find it. Type the street address, or the owner's name, in the search box. Search by address rather than by a parcel ID typed with dashes.
2. Read the owner. The Property tab gives the owner and mailing address. On a third of these lots the bill goes out of state, so any letter goes there, not to the lot.
3. Read the price history. The History tab lists every sale on record with its date, price and whether it was qualified. Then run comps from the lot: nearby sales of the same use, by distance and months. Set the lot's own last sale against the county's median of $8,500 and its comps, and you know whether it changed hands near the going rate.
4. Read the zoning and land use. Zoning, its jurisdiction, and the future land use under the plan, on the same tab.
5. Read the ground. Under Map layers over it: the flood zone and how much of the lot each zone covers, the wetlands' share in acres, and the soil's hydrologic group and hydric rating. One lot in nine here touches a wetland; if yours does, the wetlands guide is next.
6. Read the neighbours' septic. Nearly every vacant lot carries the health department inventory's NA code, because nothing is built to serve. Turn on Septic and well and read the houses around it instead.
7. Read the owner's other land. Tap the owner to see every parcel they hold, in any county. If the owner is a company, its Sunbiz officers and registered agent sit under the name.
8. Write it down. On the Notes tab, write what you found and what you will do next, then star the lot. The note is dated, private to you, and on your phone when you drive out to the lot.

When you do need more than one

Advanced search is there, a step back from the address box: filters by county, use, acres, value, zoning, flood and wetlands, last sale, homestead and owner. Match a list takes your own addresses or IDs and finds their parcels. An export of up to 1,000 properties a day, as a spreadsheet or as outlines, goes into whatever you use next. It is a way to gather parcels to research, not a source of people to contact.

Where it stops

• No recorded documents beyond sales. Mortgages, liens and easements live with the county clerk; see official records vs the appraiser.
• No title or access answer. A platted lot on a road that was never built has no legal access the map can prove.
• The roll is a January snapshot. A sale since then can make the owner on the report a past one.

Every fact on a parcel report is a public record as the county or agency published it. The Putnam County Property Appraiser is the authority on the lot's owner and values, and the county clerk on its recorded documents.