🔔 Deal Alert Emails - User Guide

📋 Overview

The Deal Alerts system lets you save your flip deal search criteria and receive email notifications automatically. You can:

• ✅ Save multiple named alerts for different criteria (e.g. one per county, one per deal type)
• ✅ Get notified about new listings, price reductions, or both
• ✅ Set full filter criteria — county, ZIP codes, min ROI, grade, deal type, price range, and more
• ✅ Enable or disable individual alerts without deleting them
• ✅ View a 30-day history of what was sent

⚡ Quickest Way: Save from Flip Deals Page

The fastest way to create an alert is directly from the Flip Deals page using your current filters:

1. Go to the Flip Deals page

   Navigate to Deals in the nav bar.

2. Set your filters

   Choose county, min ROI, grade, deal type, price range — whatever criteria you want to monitor.

3. Click "🔔 Save as Alert"

   This button is in the filter bar. A modal opens showing a summary of your current filters.

4. Name the alert

   Give it a clear name, e.g. "Ventura County Flips" or "LA High ROI >20%".

5. Choose alert type

   Select what triggers an email: new listings, price reductions, or both.

6. Click Save

   Done. The alert is active immediately and will send its first email at the next delivery window.

⚙️ Managing Your Alerts

The Deal Alerts page (🔔 Alerts in the nav bar) is where you manage all your saved alerts.

Creating a New Alert Manually

1. Click + New Alert in the top right of the My Alert Subscriptions card
2. Fill in all criteria in the modal (see Filter Criteria below)
3. Click Save Alert

Editing an Alert

1. Find the alert in your list
2. Click the ✏️ pencil icon on the right
3. Update any criteria in the modal
4. Click Save Alert

Enabling / Disabling an Alert

Use the toggle switch on each alert row to turn it on or off without deleting it. Disabled alerts are shown in grey and will not send emails.

Deleting an Alert

1. Click the 🗑️ trash icon on the alert row
2. Confirm the deletion in the prompt

🔍 Alert Filter Criteria

Each alert can be configured with the same filters as the Flip Deals page:

📬 Delivery Schedule

When Emails Are Sent

The system scans for new deals and price reductions daily. Emails are sent after each scan completes. Your delivery frequency setting controls how many of those you receive:

Email Content

Each alert email contains:

• A table of matching properties with address, price, ROI, and grade
• Each address links directly to the property's full analysis page
• New listings and price reductions are grouped separately
• Multiple matching alerts are combined into a single digest email

Deduplication

The system prevents sending the same property twice in the same day. Each property can appear in an alert email at most once per day per alert. If a property is new today and also has a price reduction today, you'll see it once — in whichever category matches your alert type first.

When You Won't Get an Email

• No new deals or price reductions matched your criteria during that scan
• The alert is disabled
• All matching properties were already sent to you today
• The alert is set to Once a day and the 9am email was already sent

📜 Alert History

The Recent Alerts Sent card on the Alerts page shows the last 30 days of emails sent to you. For each entry you can see:

• Date — when the email was sent
• Alert name — which subscription triggered it
• New listings count — how many new deals were included
• Price reductions count — how many price drops were included

💡 Tips & Best Practices

Alert Setup Tips

• 🎯 Start specific, expand later

  Create your first alert with a specific county and ROI 15%+. Once you're comfortable with the volume, lower ROI or add more ZIPs.

• 🏙️ One alert per area

  Create separate alerts for different counties or market types rather than one catch-all alert. This makes emails easier to act on and filter.

• 💰 Use price range to match your buyer pool

  If your investors only buy in the $200K–$400K range, set those limits so you're not alerting on deals outside their budget.

• 🔥 Price reductions = motivated sellers

  Consider a separate "Price Reductions Only" alert with a lower min ROI — a price drop signals motivation and may be worth contacting even at lower margins.

• 📬 Match frequency to your workflow

  Use daily for your most competitive markets where speed matters. Use Once a day for broader county-level watches where you review deals in the morning and don't need real-time pings.

Common Alert Configurations

🔧 Troubleshooting

I'm Not Receiving Emails

• Check that the alert is enabled (toggle should be on)
• Check your spam/junk folder — add [email protected] to your safe senders list
• Check the Recent Alerts Sent history — if nothing is showing, no matching deals were found yet
• Your filter criteria may be too restrictive — try lowering min ROI or removing price limits
• Remember emails arrive at once daily, after the midnight PT scan completes (or 9am only if set to once a day) — not in real-time

County Dropdown Is Empty

The county list only shows counties with active monitored ZIP codes in our system. If you don't see a county you want:

• Contact support to request that county be added to monitored markets
• Try refreshing the page — counties load on page open

Alert Saved but County Shows Wrong

If you saved an alert from the Flip Deals page and the county looks incorrect in the edit modal, open the edit modal, re-select the correct county from the dropdown, and save again.

I'm Getting Too Many Emails

• Switch to Once a day frequency in the alert settings — reduces from 3 emails/day to 1
• Raise the Min ROI to 15–20% to reduce volume
• Switch from "Both" to "New listings only" if price reduction emails aren't actionable
• Add a price range to narrow to your target market
• Disable alerts you're not acting on rather than keeping all active

Getting Help

If you encounter persistent issues, click the ? Report Issue button in the bottom-left corner of any page.