🔔 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

Why am I already getting these?

When you first log in with markets set up, we create one alert for you called "My Deal Alerts" so you see deals from day one. It's a broad one -- new listings, any ROI, grade D and above, flips, auctions excluded. Edit it to match what you actually want, or turn it off.

🎯 Deals Scout Lines Up For You

Above your alerts you'll find deals your assistant worked up on its own. It looks for A and B grade deals in your markets and, for each one, pulls the full underwrite, works out a suggested offer that hits your target return, matches a lender, and writes a short note on why it flagged the deal.

Each card shows:

• ARV, rehab and projected profit for the deal
• The suggested offer, and the return it's aiming for
• Why it flagged this one, in a sentence or two
• The lender that fits, with an indicative rate

And three things you can do with it:

• Approve & draft LOI — writes the offer term sheet at the suggested price and gives you a download link
• Open — go to the full property page
• Dismiss — clear it off the queue

You can also work the queue by chat or voice: "What did you line up for me?", "Approve the Carson one."

🤖 Scout Alerts

Separate from the email alerts below, your assistant drops in-app notes about new deals it finds in your markets. These appear on this page and in the chat -- no email involved.

• It checks every 6 hours for A and B grade for-sale deals in the counties you set up, above your saved minimum ROI
• You'll get at most 3 a day, and the same property won't come back for 7 days
• Each one has Show me, Skip, and Stop alerts
• Turned them off and changed your mind? There's a Re-enable button on this page

⚡ Quickest Way: Save from On Market Deals

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

1. Go to the On Market Deals page

   Navigate to On Market 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 On Market Deals page:

📬 Delivery Schedule

When Emails Are Sent

The scan runs once a day, starting around 1:00 AM Pacific. It works through hundreds of ZIP codes and takes a few hours, and your alert emails go out as soon as it finishes -- in practice early morning Pacific. You get at most one email per alert per day.

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
• An email for this alert already went out today

📜 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 once a day, early morning Pacific, after the overnight scan finishes -- 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 On Market 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

• Tighten the alert itself -- raise the minimum ROI or grade, or narrow to fewer ZIP codes. Since the scan runs once a day, changing the frequency setting will not reduce the count.
• 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.