How everything works.

Getting started

Create your account at app.scoutreapp.com with email and password, a magic link, or Continue with Google. Add the app to your phone's home screen so it opens like a native app.

Before your first drive

1. Allow location access when prompted. GPS parcel matching is the heart of the app.
2. Open Settings and pick your navigation app (Google or Apple) and distance units (feet or meters).
3. Do a test capture on your own street to learn the flow before you are out working.

Capturing a property

There are two ways to start a lead:

• Tap it on the map. The in-app map shows property lines and house numbers, so you can tap any house — even one you're not standing in front of — and pin the exact parcel, not the one next door.
• Use GPS at the curb. Standing in front of a property, the app matches the parcel around you from your location.

Either way, the capture flow is the same:

1. Tap + Capture (or tap a house on the map). The app shows the nearest parcels with distance, owner name and street photo, and marks its best guess. The GPS accuracy badge at the top shows how precise your fix is.
2. Tap the correct parcel. If GPS accuracy is poor (a red badge with a high foot count), step away from the car or buildings and tap refresh.
3. Set the distress level from 1 Clean to 5 Severe. Each level shows guidance text so ratings stay consistent.
4. Tag What you see: choose from 23 observations like overgrown lawn, tarp on roof, boarded windows, code notice, abandoned vehicle, green pool, storm damage, utilities off and more.
5. Tag What happened if you took action: 15 tags including left sticky note, looks vacant, knocked no answer, talked to owner, talked to neighbor, left door hanger, left business card, talked to tenant, owner interested, not interested, set callback, got phone number, mailed letter, couldn't access and confirmed vacant.
6. Add photos with Take photo, record a voice note with the red button, or type a note.
7. Tap Save. The property joins your Leads with status New.

Property data, coverage & signals

SCOUTRE represents 160M U.S. properties—approximately 95% of U.S. property coverage. Records are cleaned, organized and transformed into a property file that is easier to read in the field.

Open any lead to see the available property file:

• Matched property: address, street photo, market chips (Existing, Off Market or On MLS) and the APN.
• Valuation, equity & mortgage remaining: estimated value, equity, years owned, estimated balance remaining, approximate years left, lender, lien position, loan type, original amount, recorded date, maturity and loan history when available.
• Comps: expand to view 10 nearby comparable sales.
• Sale and deed history: recorded dates, amounts, deed types, purchase LTV, down payment, document details and prior transfers when available.
• Tax & assessment: market value, assessed value, annual property tax and assessment year when available.
• Building: year built, beds, baths, finished sqft, stories and land use.
• Legal & location: subdivision, zoning, lot size and census tract.
• Street View: one tap to eyeball the house from the curb.

Skip tracing

In the Owner Contact card, tap Trace. SCOUTRE searches an owner-contact source covering 150M+ U.S. residential property records across every state and U.S. territory. When contact data is available, the owner shows a Traced badge and the Call, Text and Email buttons display how many numbers and emails were found.

• Re trace refreshes contact data anytime. It is unlimited, like everything else.
• Add contact manually lets you store a number or email you got from a neighbor or a door conversation.
• On the map, traced properties show a filled marker under "Contacts pulled" so you can see coverage at a glance.

Calling, texting, emailing

All outreach runs through your own phone, so sellers see your real local number and you pay no platform fees.

• Call: opens the number picker; tap Call next to the number you want and your phone dials it.
• Text: opens your messages app with the owner's number filled in. Type your message and send.
• Email: pick from the traced emails, choose one of your saved templates, and SCOUTRE prepares a personalized message in your own mail app.

Turn a traced lead into a ready-to-send email

1. Open the Owner Contact card and tap Email.
2. Choose the traced email address you want to use.
3. Select one of your saved email templates.
4. Review the personalized draft in your own email client, then decide whether to send it.

After any attempt, advance the lead status (to Contacted once you reach the owner) and drop a voice note with the result while it is fresh.

Voice notes, photos & notes

• Voice notes: tap the red record button, speak, stop. Each recording is saved as its own note on the property, so "spoke with the owner" and "neighbor says they moved to Georgia" stay separate and scannable.
• Photos: taken inside the app, stored on the lead. Up to a grid per capture, add more anytime.
• Written notes: the Notes field on the capture screen, for anything typed.

Lead statuses

Tap the status chip on any lead to advance it through one clear pipeline:

• New: captured, not yet worked.
• Contacted: you reached the owner. The real conversation has started.
• Analyzing: you're underwriting the deal.
• Offer Sent: your offer is out.
• Negotiating: back-and-forth on terms.
• Under Contract: signed and moving toward close.
• Closed: done. Leads that don't work stay stored and searchable.

Filters, search & map

In Leads, use the search bar for owner names or addresses, and tap Filters. The filter drawer is organized in sections — open only what you need:

• Sort: Newest, Oldest, Distress score, Equity %, Est. value, Sqft, Follow up soonest
• Status: New, Contacted, Analyzing, Offer Sent, Negotiating, Under Contract, Closed (multi select)
• Contact: Has phone / No phone, Has email, Traced / Not traced
• Follow up: Overdue, Today, Next 7 days, Scheduled, None
• Capture: Has photos, Has notes, Distress score, Captured in last 7/30/90 days
• Financial: Equity % buckets, estimated value ranges, has mortgage vs free & clear
• Property: Square footage, beds, baths, year built, pool, HOA, property type
• Ownership: Absentee, out of state, owner occupied, corporate, inherited, long time owner
• Distress: Pre foreclosure, auction, bank owned, tax lien, tax delinquent, vacant and county signals
• MLS: Active, pending, not listed, days on market
• What you see / What happened: all 23 observation tags and 15 action tags

The footer shows a live "Show N leads" count as you pick filters. Active filters stay visible as chips under the search bar — remove any with one tap. Filter choices are remembered as you navigate. Toggle between list and map view; the map shows the filtered set. The Route button on any lead opens turn by turn navigation in your chosen maps app.

Deal analysis

Open any lead and tap Analyze Deal to run the guided underwrite. Your progress autosaves at every step, so you can leave and come back.

1. ARV: pull nearby sold comps, include or exclude each with one tap, or add your own comp (only a price is required — the address field autocompletes). Your ARV is the average of the comps you keep, and a confidence score tells you how solid that number is. Adjust or override it when you know the street better than the data.
2. Repairs: choose the fast per-square-foot mode (condition level — Light, Moderate, Heavy or Full Gut, each with low/recommended/high $ per sqft) or a detailed line-item breakdown across 16 repair categories with preset pricing. Only the active method sets your repair number. Contingency is applied once.
3. Motivation: confirm or dismiss the pre loaded distress signals, answer the qualification questions, and get a transparent score built from those signals and your field notes. Informational — it prioritizes follow ups, it never changes your offer math.
4. Exit Strategy: pick Wholesale Assignment, Fix & Flip, Rental, Creative Finance (seller financing / subject-to / hybrid), Double Close or Referral / JV — all on one screen. Each computes your maximum seller offer from its own inputs; the few numbers that drive the decision are shown up front, with the full assumptions tucked under Advanced.
5. Offer & verdict: your maximum offer and a suggested opening offer, plus a clear deal verdict — strong, possible, thin or pass. Tap Approve offer when you're ready — nothing is marked approved until you do.

From the summary you can turn the deal straight into an offer email and a shareable PDF report — see the next section.

Making the offer & deal reports

Generate the offer email

When the numbers work, turn the analysis into a ready-to-send offer email in seconds — no retyping:

1. From the deal summary tap Generate offer email.
2. Pick which owner to address and which email on file to send it to.
3. Choose a proven template, or save your own reusable templates in Settings.
4. It's auto-signed with your name, company, phone and email. Tap Open in Mail to send from your own mail app, or Copy to paste it anywhere.

Export a shareable deal report

Produce a clean, professional PDF of the whole deal — property, numbers, offer and verdict — to send to a cash buyer, a partner, or keep in your files.

• One-tap export and share straight from the lead.
• Includes owner, property data, ARV and confidence, repairs, exit strategy and your offer — all in one document.

Follow ups & calendar

1. Tap Add follow up on any lead.
2. Use a quick pick (Tomorrow, In 3 days, Next week) or the calendar, then choose Morning, Midday, Afternoon, Evening or a custom time.
3. Add a note about what the follow up is for.
4. Tap Save, then optionally Google to add it to Google Calendar or .ics (Apple) to add it to Apple Calendar.

Work your schedule from Filters → Follow up → Overdue or Today.

Settings & account

• Activity: total captures and last 7 days at a glance.
• Mail & outreach: manage Business Identity, print branding, reusable postcard and letter copy, offer emails, the personalized cash-offer page and Mail HQ.
• Navigation app: choose Google or Apple for Route buttons.
• Calendar: choose where “Save to calendar” adds follow-ups.
• Distance units: feet or meters for GPS accuracy and nearby parcels.
• Tutorials: replay Drive Scout, Capture, Direct Mail, Mail Templates, Cash-Offer Website, Pipeline, Deal Qualification and Offer lessons at any time.
• Subscription, Help & FAQ and Contact support live here too, plus Sign out.

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