From Cyber Warfare to $350K Quarters: Finding Dead Owners & Curative Title Deals with Data | Tyler Austin

Before he built one of the most powerful data platforms in distressed real estate, Tyler Austin was a military and cyber warfare operator — running open-source intelligence and hunting people down for the government. Then he made $350,000 in a single quarter finding dead owners and messy title deals, and never looked back.In this episode of Dirty Deeds, Logan Fullmer sits down with Tyler, founder of REI Sift (now Datasift), to unpack the intelligence side of the business. They cover his "Go No Go" framework for deciding which deals to chase, why death and delinquency are the two clearest signals of a curative title opportunity, and how obituary data can surface a forgotten high-equity house before it ever appears on a probate or tax-delinquent list.They also get into how AI predictive scoring works, why the best deals hide in just a handful of neighborhoods, and how top operators build a lasting competitive edge by owning their own data over time.A must-listen for anyone in wholesaling, tax-delinquent property, probate, or distressed acquisitions who wants to find deals before the competition does.New episodes weekly. Follow Dirty Deeds so you never miss the messiest, most profitable real estate deals on earth.