Help & About
How Lou works, in plain language
Lou looks at land so you don't have to — and always tells you how sure it is.
What Lou does
Give Lou a Texas address and it looks up the parcel, the county record, the utilities, the restrictions, flood and access — then hands you one report where every line shows where it came from.
How to search
A street address is the best way in, even a rural or partial one. No address? Use the parcel ID, or drop a pin on the map.
What "Have Lou Look" checks
Property identity and owner of record, parcel boundary, utilities, HOA or deed restrictions, flood and access, jurisdiction and permitting, schools and taxes, plus alerts specific to that spot.
How Lou labels information
Verified means someone with authority confirmed it. Public record means it came straight from an official record. Indicated means the signs point that way but nobody has confirmed it. And if Lou looked and found nothing, it says so — that never becomes a "no".
For professionals
Agents, builders, lenders and manufactured-home professionals get printable property facts, showing tools, private notes, and a hub for the people behind each deal.
Where Lou can look
All 254 Texas counties are recognized. Some counties are connected directly to their records, and the county list below tells you exactly which.
Data standards
LandLookyLou is built for people who carry liability for what they tell a client. It states exactly how strongly each fact is supported — and says nothing at all when it doesn't know.
Confidence levels
Applied to every field, every card, every report line
Confirmed directly with the provider or authority of record, with the date of confirmation logged.
Taken from an official public dataset such as an appraisal district, county GIS, or federal agency.
Something suggests this is likely — for example a service territory boundary — but it is not confirmed for this parcel.
There isn't enough reliable evidence yet to tell either way.
Lou searched the appropriate sources and did not locate a record. That is not evidence the thing does not exist.
The responsible authority does not publish searchable online records, or the source could not be reached. Verify directly with the authority.
An authoritative source actually supports the negative conclusion — for example a provider or authority confirming service is not available here.
What LandLookyLou will not do
Rules enforced in the product, not just in policy
- Invent parcel IDs, values, providers, zoning, flood status, or restrictions.
- Present a service territory boundary as confirmed service at a parcel.
- Show a LandLookyLou Score built from missing inputs.
- State that a manufactured home can legally be placed on a parcel.
- Fill an empty field with a plausible-looking placeholder.
- Turn "no record found" into "no septic", "no well", or "no service".
When a feed isn't live, the field reads "Data source not connected yet."
Source types
Each record stores its source, the date checked, and a confidence level
Appraisal district data
Settings and plain-language notes about how Lou reads county appraisal district records.
Refresh appraisal district data on open
Retry the county pull automatically when a stored record is thin or old
How Lou reads appraisal district records
What an appraised value is, and what a blank field means
- Lou matches a property to the appraisal district record by exact parcel ID. If the district returns no exact match, that is a source result — not proof the record does not exist.
- Fields shown as “Not located yet — ask Lou to look.” are fields the appraisal district did not publish for that parcel. That is never evidence the value is zero.
- Appraised value is a taxation figure, not a market appraisal or an opinion of value. Lou reports it as public record and never derives a price from it.
- When the district's GIS service leaves key fields empty, Lou can read the district's own public property search as a separate source and fill only the fields that are still blank.
Where Lou is looking
LandLookyLou connects directly to county appraisal records in 0 Texas counties. Additional research availability varies by location.
Lou recognizes every Texas county. Each county publishes different records, so Lou will always tell you when a particular type of information could not be verified — and never turns a missing record into a "no".
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