Data & Methodology Disclaimer
Where Our Data Comes From
Property, ownership, assessment, and sale data are compiled from official public sources, including: the DC Office of Tax and Revenue (Integrated Tax System Public Extract) and DC GIS; the Maryland State Department of Assessments and Taxation via MD iMAP (including Baltimore City, whose parcels are identified by block and lot); Virginia locality assessor and GIS systems (including Fairfax County, Arlington County Open Data, Prince William County, Loudoun County LOGIS, Stafford County, and the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls Church, Manassas, and Manassas Park); and VGIN statewide parcel data.
Distress signals are compiled from public sources including county and city tax-sale listings (official county tax-sale sites and published sale lists, including the Baltimore City tax sale conducted on the RealAuction platform at baltimorecity.marylandtaxsale.com, reached publicly through bidbaltimore.com); DC vacant and blighted property classifications, which the District maintains as separate Class 3 and Class 4 designations; Baltimore City's open Vacant Building Notices and its vacant-lot inventory, retrieved from the city's public ArcGIS feature services; scheduled foreclosure sale notices published by substitute trustees and auctioneers, currently Rosenberg & Associates and Tidewater Auctions; and publicly listed government REO inventories (HUD Home Store, Fannie Mae HomePath, Freddie Mac HomeSteps).
Refresh Cadence and Accuracy
- Data is loaded as periodic snapshots, not live feeds. Each source updates on its own schedule (some monthly, some annually, some per sale cycle); a property's status may have changed since our last load.
- A distress signal means the property appeared on the referenced public list at the time we loaded it — it does not mean the condition still exists today. Taxes get paid; sales get canceled; buildings get repaired.
- A scheduled foreclosure sale date is a forward-looking date published by the trustee. Sales are routinely postponed, rescinded, or cancelled, sometimes the day before. Treat the date as the trustee's stated intention at the time we loaded the notice, not a settled event, and confirm directly with the trustee before acting on it.
- Where a source publishes no date, we use a documented stand-in — the statutory sale date for the Baltimore City tax sale, the publication vintage for the vacant-lot inventory — rather than inventing one. These are marked as derived in the underlying record.
- Some jurisdictions do not publish certain fields at all (for example, some do not publish sale prices or owner names). Where data is absent, the Service says so rather than estimating.
- Comparable-sale figures are automated summaries of recorded transfers near a property. They are not appraisals and not opinions of value.
Not Professional Advice
The Service does not provide legal, tax, title, brokerage, lending, or investment advice. Public records can contain errors, and recorded ownership or lien status can only be confirmed through a proper title examination. Always verify independently — with the relevant county or city office, a title company, and your own advisors — before making offers, purchases, or lending decisions.
Financing References — Sonny's Capital Solutions
References in the Service to financing or to Sonny's Capital Solutions relate to business-purpose loans only (purchase and refinance of non-owner-occupied, investment, or business real estate). No consumer or owner-occupant lending is offered. Any rates, terms, or loan parameters shown anywhere in the Service are indicative examples only and are not a commitment to lend. All offers of credit are subject to application, underwriting, due-diligence review, and formal loan documentation, and may be amended or declined at the lender's sole discretion. Restrictions apply; not available where prohibited by law.
Questions or Corrections
If you believe a record is wrong, contact the issuing government office (the authoritative source) and let us know at sonnysrenovationsllc@gmail.com so we can review our copy.