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DATA ARBITRAGE$4cost per countyCounty data value (indexed)254TX counties2.3M+records indexed
The Thesis·7 minLatest

What Data Arbitrage Actually Is

Every era's power belongs to whoever controls its key resource. Today that resource is data — and most of it is sitting in plain sight, mispriced. Here's the business hiding in that gap.

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LEGAL FRAMEWORKPIACFAAPublic records = public by lawhiQ v. LinkedIn confirmed: scraping open data ≠ unauthorized access
Scraping Public Records · 8 min

Is It Legal to Scrape Public Records? A Builder's Guide (Not a Lawyer's)

Public records are public by law. So why does scraping and reselling them feel like a gray area? An operator's honest re...

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COUNTY DATA PULL1 email → entire countyPublic Information Act request$4for GIS shapefiles$0ownership data (free)
Scraping Public Records · 8 min

How to Pull Texas Appraisal District Data for $4 (The Free Way Most People Miss)

Most people pay list vendors hundreds a month for a worse version of what the county will hand you for the price of a co...

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DATA QUALITY TRUTH65%real match rateVendor claims:95%Reality:~65%
The Data-Quality Truth · 7 min

Why Your Skip-Trace Match Rate Is 65%, Not 95% (And Who's Lying to You)

A vendor promised 95%. The real number — names tied to a phone I could actually dial — was 64%. That gap is the most exp...

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