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Hello,

I’m trying to download the ATTOM Recorder dataset while reducing the row count to 5%. When I downloaded the data through Dewey last year, there was a County filter in addition to the State filter. It now appears that the County filter has been replaced by “PROPERTYADDRESSCITY.” Previously, once a state was selected, the interface displayed a complete list of counties within that state, which made it straightforward to filter the data. With the new city filter, however, I can no longer see a corresponding list of cities after selecting a state. Instead, “PROPERTYADDRESSCITY” contains 20,261 options across all states, so it is difficult to determine which cities belong to a given state or whether certain areas are missing.

For example, Los Angeles County alone contains 88 incorporated cities, and manually entering all of them would be quite time consuming. In addition, this would still exclude unincorporated communities such as East Los Angeles that would be part of Los Angeles County. The granularity of the PROPERTYADDRESSCITY filter, combined with the lack of a complete list of cities within a selected state, makes me concerned that I may unintentionally miss certain cities when downloading the data.

Since the County filter is still available for the Assessor dataset, would it be possible to restore the County filter for the Recorder dataset as well?

Unrelated, but I also noticed that the “Exclude” button does not seem to be functioning correctly for me. Instead of returning the row count excluding the selected cities, it returns the row count for only the selected cities. And lastly, I saw a post a couple months ago asking about buyer/seller info. Is "GRANTEE1NAMELAST" available in the latest version of the Recorder dataset? I'm interested in identifying developers from seller identities.

Thanks very much for your help!