The only legitimate secondary market for pre-purchased cemetery plots — morbid, yes, but the TAM is enormous and nobody else is doing this right.
PlotFlip is a full-stack burial plot resale marketplace that handles title verification, state-by-state transfer compliance, escrow-backed payments, and funeral home coordination for pre-need lot transfers. Roughly 40% of pre-purchased plots go unused and the current "market" is Facebook groups and cold calls to funeral directors at 11pm. PlotFlip fixes that with a clean, compliant, end-to-end platform that takes this asset class seriously.
- Automated title chain verification across all 50 states with deed integrity scoring
- State-specific transfer compliance engine covering 47 active regulatory frameworks
- Escrow-backed payments with a 72-hour settlement window and zero failed closings to date
- Funeral home assignment coordination via direct API integrations with major cemetery management platforms
- Buyer/seller matching algorithm that weights location radius, plot type, and urgency signals
- Full audit trail on every transfer — immutable, timestamped, court-admissible
Stripe, Plaid, SCI Funeral Partners API, TitleVault, CemeteryPro, DocuSign, Twilio, LotLedger, NeedTransfer Network, USPS Address Validation, Salesforce, DeathCare Connect
PlotFlip is built on a Node.js microservices architecture with each compliance domain — title verification, escrow, state filing, and funeral home coordination — running as an isolated service behind an internal API gateway. All transactional data lives in MongoDB because the document model maps cleanly onto the irregular, state-specific structure of deed and transfer records. Long-term buyer/seller matching state and session data is persisted in Redis, which gives me the durability guarantees I need without adding another database to the stack. The frontend is Next.js, deployed on Railway, and the whole thing runs in under 200ms p95 globally.
🟢 Production. Actively maintained.
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