Case
- Letters issued 2026-03-19
- Will none — intestate
- Next hearing Dept. 11
Over half the probate “leads” for sale in LA can’t legally sell you anything.
Every competitor sells new probate filings. But until the court issues Letters, the executor on a new filing has no legal authority to convey the house — and on real dockets we measured that wait at 46 to 77 days. We read the docket itself and tell you who can transact today.
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SourceLA Superior Court docket
Petition → authority to sell46–77 days, measured
RefreshDaily
DeliveryOne CSV, every Monday
01 The boardmeasured 2026-07-31
3,003 open LA estates. Here’s who can actually sell.
This is the split nobody selling you “probate leads” will show you — because most of their product is the first row.
Open decedent estates · LA Superior Court
n = 3,003
1,671
854
82
39
3
A raw filing list mixes all five rows together and charges you either way.
The buyer has no way to tell which is which — the docket is the only place
it’s written, and we read it.
02 The fileevery Monday
One CSV. Column A tells you what to do.
The file arrives sorted by column A, so it opens ready to work — hand it straight to whoever dials. These are its six values, verbatim:
leads_2026-07-27.csvcolumn A · sorted
1 CALL TODAY - sale notice live 2 NEW - just got authority to sell 3 Ready to call - authorized 4 Older lead - verify before calling 5 Not yet - executor has no authority 6 Likely sold already
Also in every row
- Executor — name and phone
- Property — address, beds/baths/sqft, year built
- Estimated equity — an estimate, not an appraisal
- Tenure — how long the family owned it
- Case — number and next hearing date
How the file moves
- ~75 new cases enter the file each week
- ~20 cross into callable each week — climbing from “not yet” into rows 1–3 as the court acts
- Same-day flag the day a sale notice hits the docket
03 The windowProbate Code §10586
When they file notice they’re selling, you’ll know that day.
An executor selling under independent authority must give 15 days’ notice before the sale can proceed. That notice is a public court filing that says, in effect: this house is being sold, and here is your window. We watch for it and flag it the day it appears — with 14 of the 15 days still on the clock.
| How you hear about a sale notice | The 15-day window when you do |
|---|---|
| Same-day flag — this list | ~14 days left |
| Market leader — refreshes from the courthouse every 30 days | usually closed |
04 One row, unpackedcomposed example
What a callable lead looks like.
25STPB0···· · filed 2026-01-14
3 · Ready to call — authorized
Property
- Alhambra 91801 SFR
- 2 bd / 1 ba 777 sqft · 1947
- Est. equity >$500k est.
- Family held 41 years
Contact
- Executor daughter, PR
- Phone mobile on file
- Mailing addr out of state
Real schema, invented estate. Real names and addresses are in the file, not on a marketing page.
05 What this isn’tup front, not in week three
- Not a CRM, dialer, or direct-mail service.It’s a CSV you sort and hand to whoever works your phones. You’re probably already paying for the rest.
- Not an appraisal.Equity is an estimate — no public source can see liens or mortgage balances. Rank with it; don’t write offers from it.
- Not exclusive.Every subscriber gets the same file. Anyone promising you exclusive rights to a public court record is telling you a story.
- Not every estate.Property held in trust never enters probate, and the court withholds confidential matters. No list has those.
- Not a compliance shield.You dial, you carry your own TCPA and do-not-call obligations.
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