Research standards
How CueDeed turns public records into reviewable property signals
CueDeed is designed to reduce the time spent sorting public property records without hiding uncertainty. The process preserves the official evidence first, adds separate enrichment layers, and explains what still needs verification.
Core research rules
- Official source evidence is preserved separately from derived status
- Virginia judicial sales remain distinct from Maryland and DC lien-certificate sales
- Unknown, unmatched, stale, and unverifiable states are documented rather than converted into claims
1. Preserve the source before ranking
CueDeed keeps the raw official record, its publication or delivery date, and the locality-specific meaning of each field. A later enrichment result does not overwrite the source evidence.
- Official file or official data endpoint
- Extraction and reconciliation notes
- Source date and reported coverage period
- Known missing or ambiguous fields
2. Separate signals by legal meaning
Tax delinquency, a tax-sale certificate, a judicial-sale notice, an assessment, a vacant-building notice, and an ownership record answer different questions. Combining them into one undifferentiated distress label would overstate what the evidence proves.
3. Recheck freshness before delivery
Where an official live path exists, higher-priority records can be checked for payment or redemption, ownership change, amount change, and completed or cancelled sale evidence. Where no decisive public path exists, that limitation remains visible.
- Paid or redeemed
- Transferred to a new owner
- Sale completed, postponed, or cancelled
- Balance no longer matches
- No decisive live verification path
4. Explain the next verification step
A useful research record should state why it deserves review and what must still be confirmed. CueDeed does not publish its detailed ranking formula, but it does identify the evidence class, source date, confidence, and unresolved checks needed before outreach or transaction use.
Methodology limits
CueDeed research is not title work, a legal opinion, an appraisal, proof of vacancy, or proof that an owner is motivated to sell. Public sources change, and current transaction decisions require direct verification with the responsible authority and appropriate professionals.
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Sources and evidence
Evidence summary updated 2026-09-14.
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