Alerts

You can get proactive notification of new foreclosures, status changes of your saved properties and new opening bids. The alerts contain the same deep information contained in ForeclosureRadarÕs search tool, but automatically pushed to you through emails and text messaging.

After selecting in the Main Menu, the is displayed, along with the panels of alerts that have already been created. You can create new alerts and Edit and Delete existing alerts.

Alerts have Basic and Advanced options for alert type, alert criteria and alert destination. Basic options are included with your monthly subscription. Advanced options require a paid upgrade. Select My Accounts > Billing. On the Advanced Alerts line, click Start Service in the Status column to upgrade your service.

There are three types of alerts:

1. The New Foreclosures alert allows you to track new preforeclosure, auction, bank owned and sold-to-third properties.
2. The Status Change alert allows you to receive updates on changes to your saved properties, including new foreclosure notices, sales, postponements and cancellations.
3. The Opening Bid alert notifies you of new opening bids prior to the trustee sale.

New Foreclosure and Status Change alerts are basic alerts and included free with your monthly subscription. The Opening Bid alert is an advanced option requires an upgrade.

Creating a New Alert

1. To create a new alert, click to display the Add New Alert window.
2. Select the Alert Type (New Foreclosure, Status Change, Opening Bid) and name the alert. Then click .
3. There are Basic and Advanced alert criteria.
• The basic criteria give you easy access to the most common criteria for the particular alert type.
• New Foreclosure alert: location, basic property type, general assessor data and foreclosure stage.
• Status Change alert: interest, status and tags.
• New Opening Bid alert: state, county and Is Saved.
• The Advanced alert allows you to use one of your Saved Searches, giving you full access to all of the 60-plus search criteria ForeclosureRadar offers. Select a previously saved search by its name in the drop down menu. You can review the specific criteria for that Saved Search in the dialogue box once it has been selected.

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4. There are four destination options available for an alert. The destination determines where ForeclosureRadar sends your alert. There are Basic and Advanced alert destination options. Default settings for a destination email address or phone number can be set under Alerts Defaults in My Account.
• The Basic destination is a daily summary email sent at the end of the day that includes any matches to your Alert over the course of the day. The email is sent to the email address associated with your ForeclosureRadar subscription unless you choose to set up a different email destination under Defaults in My Account.
• Advanced destinations include:
• Immediate email: sent when we detect a match to your alert type and criteria.
• Immediate text message: sent to your cell phone.
• Save the property with a specific status or tag.

This last option creates powerful ways to automate your business by having new opportunities automatically flagged for further research or automatically updated upon status changes. This is a great time saver.

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5. The alert shows up enabled on the alerts panel. You can stop an alert temporarily by clicking Disabled, or permanently remove an alert by clicking Delete.

Working with Alerts

After creating a new alert, you can choose to Edit or Delete it.

Edit an Alert

1. In the alerts list, click Edit in the alert you want to change.
   The Edit Alert window is displayed.
2. Select your changes to the options configured while creating the alert.
3. Click to complete your alert with your selected variables.
   Your edits are saved, and the alert is updated in the list of alerts.

Delete an Alert

You can remove an alert from the alerts list when you no longer need it.

1. In the alerts list, click Delete in the alert you want to remove.
   The Delete Action window is displayed.
2. Click to delete the alert, or click to close the window without deleting the alert.