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Courthouse Research Companies: Sunlark Research, Part Four

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This is a continuation of an interview I had with Lark of Sunlark Research. If you missed the beginning of the interview, please check it out here. Me: Are there any other research opportunities at Sunlark, other than the standard pulling of mortgages/deeds of trusts? Lark: We do collect all new mortgages except commercial. This includes refinances, home equity loans, and 2nd mortgages, as well as new purchases. In addition to mortgages/deeds of trust, we collect several other types of court data. This includes tax liens, civil cases, probate files, and several others that I prefer not to elaborate publicly … Continue reading →

Courthouse Research Companies: Sunlark Research, Part Two

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This is a continuation of an interview I had with Lark of Sunlark Research. If you missed the beginning of the interview, please check it out here. Me: Do you use a custom-built program for the ICs to input the records into, or do you use Excel sheets? Why? Lark: We use both. At present, some of our clients have their own systems for data entry. For our others, we are using spreadsheets for now. Our intent is to eventually develop our own data entry software for those clients that don’t already have their own. In most cases, a data … Continue reading →

Courthouse Research: A Full-Time Job?

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This is a mini-series on becoming a courthouse researcher. If you haven’t heard of that job before, or if you missed the first part of this series, make sure to start reading here. Otherwise, read on! Many people start salivating over the idea of having a flexible data entry job that pays them $15 – $20 an hour, and they get really excited, apply at Sunlark / AMD / Wolfgang, and think their life is set when they get hired on with one of the companies. The problem is, yes, the hours are flexible, but keep in mind that you … Continue reading →

My Embarrassing Trip to the Courthouse, Part Two

Make sure to read Part One if you haven’t already… Once I finally got the right office (they were right–it was the Registrar of Deeds) the office lady showed me where the two public access computers were at. I asked her how to find the info that I needed, and after some back and forth between us (she had never tried to find mortgages by date like I was trying to do) we finally figured out what I needed to do. At which point I promptly made my second mistake: I got my training mixed up and thought that I … Continue reading →

My Embarrassing Trip to the Courthouse, Part One

Yesterday, I talked about a job that may be the perfect fit for you: Researching info at courthouses. If you missed that blog, you’ll definitely want to read it before you read this blog. 🙂 I had been to my courthouse before to file some small claims cases for the bricks and mortar job I had had previously, so when I was told by Sunlark (the courthouse research company) to go to the courthouse, I thought, “Okay, I can do that.” I went upstairs to the Magistrate office, laptop clutched in my sweaty hands, nervous as a thief in the … Continue reading →

Data Entry Scams

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Data entry is one of the most prevalent job openings on the Internet. Every job board you go to has got ten, twenty, thirty job openings for data entry, sometimes even more. I have bad news: I am willing to bet dollars to donuts that 99.99% of these jobs are scams. Makes ya want to sit down and just cry, I know. The way the data entry scam works is you read an ad saying that this company is hiring typists, you can make really good money for almost nothing, and all you have to do to get the info … Continue reading →

Data Entry Opportunities

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I have seen a lot of advertisements on the Internet about working from home as a data entry person. In fact, that seems to be one of the most popular job listings out there. The problem is, 99.9% of those are scams. To read more about these scams and how they operate, check out my Data Entry Scams article. But before you completely give up on data entry from home, I do have good news: There is one company that actually does pay you to do data entry from home. It is Key For Cash. The work is so easy, … Continue reading →

Why are Data Entry Jobs so Scarce?

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In this blog, I covered the typical data entry scam, and in this one, I covered the only true data entry company I know of on the Internet. But all of this begs the question: Why are data entry jobs so scarce? It seems like a real job. It seems like it would be pretty easy to do. Why is there such a dearth of legitimate data entry companies? Well, you have to look at what data entry truly is. When someone is a typist, they are taking information that is in another form and putting it into a Word … Continue reading →