Tag Archives: Sunlark Research

Courthouse Research Blogs in Summary

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Since I have written so many different blogs about Courthouse Research over the course of two months, I thought that if I created one blog where you could go to and find links to all of the courthouse research blogs at once, it would make it easier for people who are interested in the subject. Here are the blogs in the best order to read them: Looking for the Perfect Data Entry Job? I May Have Your Answer… In this blog, I introduce the job and what it entails. My Embarrassing Trip to the Courthouse, Part One Here, I talk … Continue reading →

FAQs for Sunlark Research

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Lark has told me that she tends to get the same questions over and over again about her company, so I thought it would be beneficial if I posted a sort of FAQ for Sunlark. Please know that these answers are only guaranteed to be true for Sunlark–things may be very different with Wolfgang or AMD. Having said that, here goes: Do I get paid through your company? Yes. We pay weekly by direct deposit into your checking account. We used to use PayPal, but the fees were higher, and people were having to wait longer for their money (since … Continue reading →

Courthouse Research Companies: Sunlark Research, Part Four

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This is a continuation of an interview I had with Lark of Sunlark Research. If you missed the beginning of the interview, please check it out here. Me: Are there any other research opportunities at Sunlark, other than the standard pulling of mortgages/deeds of trusts? Lark: We do collect all new mortgages except commercial. This includes refinances, home equity loans, and 2nd mortgages, as well as new purchases. In addition to mortgages/deeds of trust, we collect several other types of court data. This includes tax liens, civil cases, probate files, and several others that I prefer not to elaborate publicly … Continue reading →

Courthouse Research Companies: Sunlark Research, Part Three

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This is a continuation of an interview I had with Lark of Sunlark Research. If you missed the beginning of the interview, please check it out here. Me: What requirements are there to work for Sunlark? Do you require high-speed Internet? Lark: While we look at such factors as typing speed and accuracy, equipment owned such as a laptop computer, and related experience, the only hard and fast requirements are the ability to work independently and the follow-through to do whatever you commit to. People who can manage their own time and aren’t afraid to try something new without someone … Continue reading →

Courthouse Research Companies: Sunlark Research, Part Two

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This is a continuation of an interview I had with Lark of Sunlark Research. If you missed the beginning of the interview, please check it out here. Me: Do you use a custom-built program for the ICs to input the records into, or do you use Excel sheets? Why? Lark: We use both. At present, some of our clients have their own systems for data entry. For our others, we are using spreadsheets for now. Our intent is to eventually develop our own data entry software for those clients that don’t already have their own. In most cases, a data … Continue reading →

Courthouse Research Companies: Sunlark Research, Part One

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As part of my mini-series on becoming a courthouse researcher, I have interviewed several research companies in hopes of helping my readers get a better feel for each company, and understand more about the industry. If you haven’t been reading my blog long (shame on you!) and have never heard of courthouse research before, then make sure to start reading at the beginning. Otherwise, read on! Today I wanted to talk about Sunlark Research. This is the company that I actually worked for, when I was a courthouse researcher. I have nothing but the best to say about the company, … Continue reading →

Courthouse Research Companies: Wolfgang Research

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There are three major courthouse research companies out there, that do the kind of work I have been talking about lately. There are many, many companies out there that do other types of research (criminal background checks, liens on properties, and genealogy research, just to name a few) and although I’m sure those types of research are very profitable, I don’t personally have any experience with them, and wouldn’t know how to tell y’all how to become that type of researcher. The research I did, and the research I talked about in my previous blogs, is very simple and does … Continue reading →

If Courthouse Research Isn’t Full Time, Why Bother?

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This is a mini-series on becoming a courthouse researcher. If you haven’t heard of that job before, or if you missed the first part of this series, make sure to start reading here. Otherwise, read on! In my last blog, I talked about how courthouse research is not a full-time job, except in rare cases (either the researcher is willing to cover lots of territory to get their 40 hours in, or the researcher happens to live in a very large city that doesn’t have a researcher already covering it, which is very rare.) Some people may say, “Well, if … Continue reading →

Courthouse Research: A Full-Time Job?

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This is a mini-series on becoming a courthouse researcher. If you haven’t heard of that job before, or if you missed the first part of this series, make sure to start reading here. Otherwise, read on! Many people start salivating over the idea of having a flexible data entry job that pays them $15 – $20 an hour, and they get really excited, apply at Sunlark / AMD / Wolfgang, and think their life is set when they get hired on with one of the companies. The problem is, yes, the hours are flexible, but keep in mind that you … Continue reading →

Why Do Companies Pay People to Collect this Information?

This is a mini-series on becoming a courthouse researcher. If you haven’t heard of that job before, or if you missed the first part of this series, make sure to start reading here. Otherwise, read on! I found this job by Googling a phrase that I saw a poster on a work-at-home forum talk about in passing–Sunlark Research and something called courthouse research. What is Sunlark Research? I had no clue, so I hit Google to find out more. I found their website, and read about it some. Looked interesting, and the money sounded good, so I decided to apply. … Continue reading →