01What we collect
- Public listings. New property-for-sale posts on Craigslist in the metros we cover: the title, asking price, the text of the ad, the city or zip it names, and links to its photos. Also Seattle's public code-violation records.
- Your account. Your email address, your plan, and your trial dates. Payments go through Stripe; we never see or store your card number.
- What you do in HouseRadar. The metros and buy box you pick, the deals you save, your notes, your Pursue and Pass verdicts, and which cards you open. We use this to show you a better feed and to see which parts of the product get used.
02What we never store or show
- Poster contact details. Craigslist keeps a poster's phone number and email behind a "show contact info" button. We never press it, so we don't collect them. If a poster types a phone number or name into the body of their ad, that text is stored with the listing so it can be read, and it is never shown to other users.
- Anything behind a login. We only read pages anyone can open without an account. We don't sign in to other sites, and we don't scrape private groups.
- Your data, sold. Your verdicts, notes and activity are never sold or shared with a partner, and no partner can touch a score.
03Where comps and market data come from, and how old they can be
Market context (metro and zip medians, homes sold, days on market) comes from Redfin's free public data, published monthly. Redfin publishes with a lag, so these figures are usually a few months behind.
Sold and rental comps come from RentCast. A sold comp only counts toward a score if it sold within the last 90 days. When there are not enough recent sales in a zip, the score falls back to market context, or to the listing alone, and the card says which.
Comps: last pulled October 2026
Metros where recent sold comps are in use today: 7 of 23
04A card is HouseRadar's read, never a copy of an ad
A card shows the ad's title, asking price and a photo, and links back to the original post. Everything else on it is ours: the score, the line saying what the score stands on, any cap, and the written read.
A model does the reading. Its score is capped by evidence it cannot invent: a missing address, no photos, no recent sales nearby, or a price that doesn't fit the market all hold a score down no matter how good the ad sounds. Every card shows what it had to go on, and when a cap held it down, the card says so.
05How to get your data deleted
Email help@gethouseradar.com from the address on your account and ask us to delete it. We'll confirm, then delete your account, your notes, verdicts and activity within 30 days. If you have a paid plan, cancel it first in Manage Subscription so you aren't charged again.
Email a deletion request