non MMM related: looking up property info

[mrsjrd23]

My SIL just got a baby gift in the mail that was shipped from target with a billing address from Woodland Park, NJ.  They have no friends/family in NJ except her Aunt who doesn't live near there.  We googled the address and got links on zillow for it but is there a way to find out the owner of this house? Where I live there is a website where you can type any address in and find out how much a house sold for, who owns it, tax info, etc. 

She's racking her brain trying to figure out who this is and wants to thank them. 

The name on billing sheet was simply "A I"

[djc315]

You may be able to search the property tax records on the city website. Was it from a Target registry? They may be able to help out, too.

[mrsjrd23]

They aren't registered - this is their 3rd baby. She even looked up to see if their old registry from 2008 was active and it isn't.

I found a website for Woodland Park, NJ but can't seem to find out if I can find info on a particular address.
this is the website I found for the city:
www.wpnj.us/index.html

[catbus]

Here, I would go to our county's parcel viewer. Keep in mind if the address is rented, you'll still be lost, because you may not recognize the owner/taxpayer's name at all.

Edit: I know this because we met a bunch of neighbors at a block party literally the week we moved into our house. I quickly forgot some names, so I thought I'd be clever and find them on the parcel viewer. They didn't sound familiar, but again, I'd met a lot of people. Fast forward to chatting with our next-door neighbor about "Nancy and Bob" down the block, only for him to give me a confused look and say, "you mean Jen and Ellen?" Yep. I was very, very off. 

[moopoint17]

tax1.co.monmouth.nj.us/cgi-bin/prc6.cgi?menu=index&ms_user=glou&passwd=data&district=0801&mode=11

I used that website a lot when we were looking at condos. Just choose Passiac county.

[djc315]

Try this: wipp.edmundsassoc.com/Wipp1616/

It looks like you can input address.

[Ashley&Scott]

Check the city or county assessor's website.

[mrsjrd23]

hmmm, both of those websites allowed me to find the owner - thank you! however, it does say the person that lives there has a last name that starts with "I" but no first name that is "A" - I sent the info to my SIL and she does not recognize the last name at all. Weird.

[djc315]

Maybe someone her H knows? Or her inlaws?

I am invested and want to know now!

[mrsjrd23]

They have searched through all their random facebook friends, definitely no family there except like I said her Aunt but no where near woodland park, she's a SAHM so no coworkers and my brother works for a church so it's not like it's a business associate or something.

[moopoint17]

On the site I sent, if the taxes are being sent to another address then it's more than likely that there are renters living there.

[mrsjrd23]

Feb 14, 2014 16:01:25 GMT -5 @ojo said:

m.whitepages.com/reverse_address

Ok this site gives me the names of all the people living in the house and one has the initials of AI. But no one recognizes the name. 
My sister in law said, "I hope he's not someone who stole our information from Target's security breach or something.
And is making it up to us with a gift." LOL

(they didn't have their identity stolen from the target breach as far as they can tell - no weird dealing on their credit report, they did change debit cards just in case and have a credit monitoring system on their card now but nothing was confirmed that their information was stolen. )

[jessnpaul]

Not sure if this helps, but "Woodland Park" used to be known as West Paterson. It changed names a couple of years ago. So ask her if she knows anyone from West Paterson.