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 — every entry, not just the case number — tell you who can transact today, and brief you on what the court file actually says.
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SourceLA Superior Court docket
Petition → authority to sell46–77 days, measured
Docket readIn full — up to 250 entries
DeliveryOne CSV, every Sunday
01 The boardmeasured 2026-08-10
6,647 LA estates on the docket. 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 two rows.
Decedent estates on the docket · LA Superior Court
n = 6,647
1,325
3,639
1,264
279
129
11
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 Sunday
One CSV, two sections. Only what happened this week.
Nothing cumulative, nothing stale. Section one is who became able to sell in the last seven days, sorted so the top row is the first call. Section two is every estate filed this week — with the date each one is expected to become able to sell. A real week (2026-08-02): 45 became callable, 79 filed fresh — 124 rows, 118 with a direct phone.
2026-08-02.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 7 New filing - authority expected ~2026-09-04
Also in every row
- Docket briefing — what the court file actually says (next section)
- Deal angle — how this row becomes a deal, when the facts support one
- Executor — name, phone, email, and whether they’re local or out of state
- Property — address, beds/baths/sqft, year built, estimated equity
- Appraisal status — whether the heirs have a court number in their heads yet
- Case — number, hearing date, expected-authority date
The countdown nobody else ships
- 8 in 10 new filings already have their appointment hearing scheduled — median 25 days out. That date is when authority is likely granted, and it’s in the file.
- The play it enables: mail now, call the week before the hearing — while every competitor’s list still says “new filing”.
- 81% of callable leads have no court appraisal on file yet — the heirs are negotiating without an anchor.
03 The briefingread, not scraped
Every docket gets read. You get told what it says.
A case number and a filing date tell you nothing about the case. The docket — sometimes five entries, sometimes five hundred — is where the objections, the lost wills, the creditor claims and the family fights live. We read it in full for every lead and write down what a buyer would want to know.
case_notes · composed example2 of 21 columns
- Intestate; a single administrator was appointed 2026-03-19. Authority scope
not stated in the docket — confirm full vs. limited before pricing a close.
- Two creditor’s claims filed in April. The estate cannot distribute until
they are paid, and the house is the only asset of size.
- No Inventory & Appraisal on record — no court-appraised number exists yet.
deal_angle
The creditor claims and an administrator managing from out of state point the
same direction: the estate needs liquidity and nobody is local to the house.
With no appraisal filed, there is no court number anchoring price expectations.
Rests on: the April claims, the executor’s mailing address, the empty
appraisal line.
What makes it trustworthy
- Grounded in the record. The briefing may only state what is visible in the docket — no invented motives, no guessed family dynamics, no sales scripts.
- Mechanically audited. Every date, dollar figure and authority claim in every briefing is checked back against the court record before the file ships. Anything unverifiable is flagged for human review.
- “No particular angle” is an allowed answer — and a common one. When the file says there is an angle, that means something.
Why a reader beats a regex
- The median LA probate docket runs 48 entries; contested ones run past 500. Keyword rules only find what someone anticipated.
- On one estate, a rule-based script suggested a friendly backup-buyer line. The docket held 20 objections, 26 ex parte applications and 7 attorney substitutions — a five-year war. The briefing catches that; a filing feed never will.
- Petition type shows from entry one — lost wills, spousal petitions, special administrators surface on day-one filings too.
04 The windowProbate Code §10586
When they file notice they’re selling, you’ll know that week.
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. Every docket is re-read on a weekly cycle, so the flag lands with most of the window still on the clock — and an expired notice is labelled as expired, never sold to you as fresh.
| How you hear about a sale notice | The 15-day window when you do |
|---|---|
| Weekly docket read — this list | ~9–14 days left |
| Market leader — refreshes from the courthouse every 30 days | usually closed |
05 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.
06 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.Numbers are checked against the National and state Do Not Call registries and known-litigator lists, and registered numbers are removed — but you dial, and you carry your own TCPA obligations.
07 The askfree · no card
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