Our own numbers · Wexmoor Circle
Four in ten California rental owners cannot be reached at all.
We pulled thirty non-owner-occupied California properties at random and tried to find a way to contact the owner. Thirteen of the thirty were an LLC or a trust with no email and no phone on record. Here is the count, the method, and what it costs anyone trying to reach them.
1 · The count
Thirteen of thirty owners had neither an email nor a phone number.
Not a matter of them ignoring us. There is no contact route at all, because the owner of record is a company or a trust rather than a person.
2 · How it was measured
Thirty records, one afternoon, and a sample small enough to say so.
We are publishing the method because a number you cannot check is not worth reading.
The population
California non-owner-occupied residential property. Across the seven counties we work in, the same source lists 1,603 in foreclosure and 13,104 on the market.
The sample
30 records, drawn without a filter
We did not screen for equity, distress or owner type first. A sample chosen after filtering would only measure the filter.
The test
One contact lookup per record
A commercial property-data service, billed per result rather than per attempt, so a blank costs nothing and cannot be hidden. Run 19 September 2026.
3 · Why it is worth knowing
The owners nobody can reach are the ones every programme is written for.
Homeowner outreach, counselling referrals and hardship letters all assume a person at an address. Four in ten of these owners are a company, and the mail goes to a registered agent who forwards nothing.
For anyone buying a list
You are paying for rows you can never use
Count reachable owners, not records. The two numbers are not close, and only one of them can be worked.
For the tenants in those houses
Real houses, real people, no forwarding address
These are occupied rentals. The entity that owns them is reachable only through a filing, and that is a very slow door to knock on.
4 · Why we counted it
We read the file before you pay for it.
We count what is reachable before we spend anything on a list, because the alternative is buying a number that looks like supply and is not. The same habit is why we run the coverage test on a rental at the price we would actually pay, rather than at the asking price.
