Tax lien and tax deed investing exploit the mechanism by which local governments enforce unpaid property taxes.
Log in to followFirst auction I've registered for. Online platform, county in a bid-down state, 340 certificates in the batch after the withdrawals were posted. My total budget is $12,000 and I w…
Small portfolio, 46 certificates across three counties at the peak, and I found the ceiling in the least interesting way possible. In my state a tax certificate has a life. If the…
What I keep seeing with new tax-lien buyers is that they arrive with the statutory rate memorized and nothing else. The rate is the least useful number on the page because it's th…
I put $6,200 into certificates last year across two counties and every single one redeemed inside eleven months. The interest came in at the statutory rate for those states, which…
I sat through a live deed auction as a spectator and counted maybe fourteen bidders who clearly knew what they were doing and thirty-something who did not. The ones who did not we…
Looking at an upcoming deed sale in a county I know the construction side of well. Parcel is a 1940s balloon-frame house, opening bid $9,400, which is four years of taxes plus fee…
Sitting on $400,000 earmarked for something with predictable cash behavior, and certificates keep coming back as the answer because the return is written into statute rather than…