Tax lien and tax deed investing exploit the mechanism by which local governments enforce unpaid property taxes.
Log in to followI have a defined amount to place into tax certificates over the next two auction seasons and I keep going back and forth on the shape of it rather than the size. Case for concentr…
A guy who's been a customer of mine for years came into my shop convinced he could buy houses at the tax sale for a few thousand dollars. He'd read that liens sell for the amount…
Reading this room for a few weeks and there are two clearly different practices in it and both are defended by people who've done more than I have. The first says: most certificat…
Property taxes nationally are pushing toward $400 billion and homeowner costs keep climbing, insurance especially. That should mean more delinquent parcels and a bigger sale list…
Reading a state's tax foreclosure chapter next to the county treasurer's own procedure sheet and they don't line up on who gets served. The statute lists record owner, mortgagees…
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…