Arlington County Pre-Foreclosure Prospecting

Arlington County Pre-Foreclosure Prospecting

ACTION PLAN – Arlington Courthouse Evictions Prospecting

Purpose – to research and obtain name and mailing address information of landlords who have filed Unlawful Detainers in Arlington within the past 6 months.

STEPS
  1. Go to the Arlington General District Court at 1425 N. Courthouse Rd, Arlington, VA. Court hours are 8am – 4pm.

  1. Go up to Room 2400 for Civil cases, and go back into the Attorney drop box room to the left of the payment windows.

  1. Set up laptop an open the blank pre-formatted Excel spreadsheet called Eviction List – TEMPLATE.xls

  1. Access the single terminal and sign on as follows
  2. Hit the CLEAR key in the upper left corner of the keyboard
  3. Enter DMSSSCT01 and hit the ENTER key in the lower right corner of the keyboard
  4. When prompted to enter a SECURITY CODE, enter CASE MGMT and hit ENTER
  5. You should see “THANK YOU CASE MANAGEMENT”. Hit ENTER again.
  6. Enter PUBLIC013G and hit ENTER.
  7. You should see “THANK YOU PUBLIC ACCESS”. Hit ENTER again.
  8. You should see the CMS Case Management System splash screen. Hit ENTER again.
  9. You should see the Criminal Menu of the CMS.
  10. Enter M for Master Menu and hit ENTER
  11. Enter V for Civil Menu

  1. At the Civil Menu screen, select option 7 for Hearing Search Request

  1. On the Search Request Screen, tab to the Case Type field and enter UD (for Unlawful Detainer), the enter Hearing Date range as MMDDYY, and hit ENTER.

  1. On the Hearing results screen, you can enter the letter for the functions listed in blue at the bottom of the screen.
  2. F – Forward Page
  3. B – Back Page
  4. I – Case Inquiry
  5. R – Search Request

  1. Enter I for Case Inquiry and tab the cursor to the case file you want to open

  1. If the PLT 01 (Plaintiff) appears to be an individual, capture the Plaintiff’s Name, Address and Phone into the formatted Excel spreadsheet. Also enter the DEF 01 (Defendant) Address, as the property address
(NOTE – DO NOT include any symbols in the Address information, such as #, &, etc)
  1. Enter S (for H/S Display) and hit ENTER to return to the Hearing Search results list. Go to Step 6 and repeat until the entire Hearing Search result list is processed.

  1. When finished processing all records, enter the jurisdiction, the last date and last record processed in the Excel spreadsheet as a bookmark for the next search.

  1. Save the Excel spreadsheet as Eviction-Arlington-YYYY-MM-DD.xls, (where YYYY is the current year, MM month and DD day), and email the file to the Marketing Coordinator.

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