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How lead scores work
Every lead has a score from 1 to 99. Scores compare a home with every other lead in the same market, and the top of the scale is deliberately hard to reach: only about 1 in 100 leads scores 90 or higher, and a home can’t get there on value alone. Scores are recalculated every time the data refreshes.
Score ranges
Score
Priority
What it means
90+
High
Strong, recent signals on a valuable property. About 1 in 100 leads.
70–89
Good
At least one strong signal, or several moderate ones. About 1 in 10 leads.
1–69
Lower
A single signal, or an older one. Worth a flyer when you’re already in the neighborhood.
What goes into a score
Three things are weighed together:
Signals: public-record events that point to a pool owner who needs service now. More signals raise the score, and recent ones count more than old ones.
Home value: higher-value homes score higher. They are more likely to pay for recurring service and are worth more per visit.
Pool size: bigger pools add to the score where the county records the size. A pool of unknown size counts as average.
Signals
Signal
Strength
Why it matters
Green pool case
Strong
The county cited the home for a green or stagnant pool. The owner has to fix it now.
Recently sold
Strong, fades over 2 years
New owners of a pool home rarely keep the previous owner’s pool service.
New pool
Strong
A pool permit, or a pool the county records as built in the last two years. It needs startup chemistry and weekly service.
New construction
Strong
A new home with a pool needs startup chemistry and weekly service from the first month.
Vacation rental
Strong
The pool has to be guest-ready between stays, often twice a week.
Equipment work
Strong
A pool heater, pump or pool electrical permit. The owner is putting money into the pool. Only in cities that publish these permits.
Other pool code case
Moderate
A pool barrier or fence case, or another open case about the pool.
Pool remodel or resurfacing permit
Moderate
The owner is investing in the pool.
Absentee owner
Moderate
The owner lives elsewhere, often for part of the year. Out-of-state owners score higher than in-state owners.
Pool barrier permit
Weak
The owner is working on the pool area.
Pool
Weak
Every pool home is listed, even with nothing else going on. A home with only a pool comes after the leads with another signal and scores 39 or less.
Pool details
Estimated volume: the pool’s size × 5.5 ft average depth × 7.48 gallons per cubic foot, rounded to 500. Only where the county records the size.
Pool type, spa and screen enclosure: shown where the county’s records name them. When they’re missing, the records just don’t say.
Resurfacing or liner prospect: a plaster pool (or one of unknown finish) 12 to 20 years old, when its first resurfacing is usually due (plaster lasts 10 to 15 years), or a vinyl pool 8 to 12 years old, due for its first new liner (liners last 7 to 10). Older pools have most likely been redone already, so they aren’t flagged, and neither is a pool with a remodel or new-pool permit in the last two years.
Pool weather: under Route, the three-day forecast flags freezes, storms, days of 100°F or more and heavy rain, with what each means for the pools on your route (National Weather Service).
Pool homes by ZIP: Market trends lists how many homes in each ZIP code have a pool, and their share of all homes, to help choose where to work.
Good to know
Signals add up, but each additional signal adds a little less than the one before.
A lead with only a weak signal (for example, an absentee owner and nothing else) is capped at 59, and a single moderate signal is capped at 79, however valuable the home.
Scores compare leads within one market. A 90 in Tampa Bay and a 90 in Jacksonville are each among the best few leads in their own market.
Every lead is a home with a pool, shown by county property records, a county aerial map, or a pool permit or case.
Leads come from public records: property appraiser rolls, building permits, code enforcement cases and state rental licenses. Records can lag behind real events by days or weeks.
Visit outcomes you record don’t change a lead’s score, but you can hide recently visited leads with the filter on the Home page.
Data credits
Records come from county and city open-data portals. These publishers ask to be credited:
City of Charlotte: pool code enforcement cases (CC BY 4.0).
Wake County: residential building permits (CC BY 4.0).
City of Charlottesville: parcels, sales and building permits (CC BY 4.0).
District of Columbia, via Open Data DC: parcels, permits, rental licenses and pool outlines (CC BY 4.0).
Baltimore City: real property (CC BY 3.0).
State of Maryland, Department of Assessments and Taxation: statewide parcel data.
City of Pittsburgh, via the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center: building permits (CC BY 4.0).
CAGIS and the Hamilton County Auditor: Hamilton County, Ohio parcels.
Adams County and Jefferson County, Colorado: parcels, values, sales and permits (CC BY 4.0).
City of Albuquerque: this site provides applications using data that has been modified for use from its original source, www.cabq.gov, the official website of the City of Albuquerque.
City of Chicago: this site provides applications using data that has been modified for use from its original source, www.cityofchicago.org, the official website of the City of Chicago. The City of Chicago makes no claims as to the content, accuracy, timeliness, or completeness of any of the data provided at this site. The data provided at this site is subject to change at any time. It is understood that the data provided at this site is being used at one's own risk.
Cook County Assessor's Office: Cook County, Illinois parcels, sales and permits.
Regional Land Information System data are a product of Metro and made publicly available according to the license agreement found in https://rlisdiscovery.oregonmetro.gov/pages/open-database-license.
City of Worcester, MA: building permits.
Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County: parcels and building characteristics, retrieved from data.nashville.gov at each market update. Metro does not endorse PoolSpotter.
Marion County Board of County Commissioners, Florida: residential building permits.
Montgomery County Planning Department (Maryland): pool outlines from planimetric mapping.
Town of Gilbert, Arizona: pool permits (CC BY 4.0).
City of Mesa, Arizona: pool permits and code cases.
Source: City of Tempe, Arizona: pool code cases (CC BY 4.0).
GeoNames: city names for some ZIP codes (CC BY 4.0).
National Weather Service: the three-day forecast under Route (U.S. government data, public domain).
U.S. Census Bureau: county population estimates and building permits, under Market trends (U.S. government data, public domain).
OpenStreetMap contributors and the OSRM project: street directions and drive-time areas.
Each publisher provides its data as is and makes no claims about its accuracy, completeness or timeliness.
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