Terms of Service
These are the terms for using Property Priors, the property research service at propertypriors.com. They are written in plain English on purpose. If you use the service, run a free read, join early access, or pay for a read or subscription, these terms apply.
What Property Priors is
Property Priors reports and organizes public-record data about real property and computes summaries from it. A "read" is our report on one address: recorded sales and exits, deeds, permits, and other documents on record, plus figures we compute from those records using stated methods and confidence flags.
Property Priors is an independent product. It is not affiliated with any government office, county recorder, assessor, or court.
What a read is (and is not)
A read reports what is on public record about a property and computes summaries from it. That is the whole product, and it is also the whole limit of the product.
Values shown in a read are computed from recorded outcomes. The method and a confidence flag are stated next to the number. What you do with a property, whether to buy, sell, rent, hold, or offer a price, is your decision and yours alone.
The data comes from public records and tracked public listings. Public records contain errors, omissions, and recording lags, and our coverage has windows: the sources and date ranges are stated on the surfaces where the data appears. When a read says "none on record," it means none found in the sources and windows described, not a guarantee that nothing exists.
Permitted use
You can use reads for your own decisions, personal or business: underwriting a purchase, pricing a sale, checking a property before you commit. That is what the service is for.
What you cannot do:
- No bulk resale or redistribution. Do not resell, republish, or redistribute the data or the reads as a product of your own. Sharing a read with your partner, lender, or agent on a deal is fine. Repackaging our output is not.
- No scraping the service. Do not use bots, crawlers, or automated tools to extract data from Property Priors.
- No misrepresenting a read as an appraisal, a broker price opinion, or the work of a licensed professional.
Payments and refunds
Paid reads and subscriptions are delivered digitally. Per-read purchases are charged when you order; subscriptions are charged on the billing cycle shown at checkout and can be canceled anytime, effective at the end of the paid period.
Refunds: if we cannot produce a paid read for the address you gave us, you get a full refund, no questions. For anything else, contact us and we will make it right. We would rather fix a problem than argue about one.
Accuracy
We work hard to report the record faithfully, and we state our methods and confidence flags so you can judge the numbers yourself. But the service is built on public records, and public records are imperfect. Everything in What a read is (and is not) applies to every read, free or paid. The service is provided as is, without warranties of accuracy or completeness.
Limitation of liability
In plain English: if something goes wrong with the service, the most we owe you is what you paid us. To the fullest extent the law allows, our total liability for any claim connected to the service is capped at the fees you paid Property Priors in the twelve months before the claim. We are not liable for indirect losses, such as a deal that went badly, lost profits, or decisions made using a read.
Termination
You can stop using the service anytime. We can suspend or close access if these terms are broken, for example scraping or redistribution. If we close your access without cause while you have unused paid reads or remaining subscription time, we will refund that unused portion.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Tennessee, without regard to conflict-of-law rules.
Changes to these terms
We may update these terms as the service grows. The date at the top tells you the current version. If a change is material, we will post it here before it takes effect, and continued use after that means you accept it.
Contact
The way to reach us is the same channel the service already uses: the early-access form on the home page. Join it, or reply to any email we send you from that list. A person reads it.