Tax Sales

Tax Lien and Tax Deed Investing


All Property in the United States is Subject to Property Taxes.
If you own real estate, you’ll be expected to pay these property taxes each year. 

If you fail to pay these taxes, your property will become “tax delinquent”, which means it has started down a path that will eventually lead to some form of tax foreclosure. What this means, is your property will be seized and repossessed by the county or municipality.

A county’s main concern is to keep the lights on. They need to pay for road maintenance, and police, and fire departments, and all the rest of the infrastructure and services that make our lives comfortable and safe. Each year they must generate enough revenue to make this happen.

If a citizen of that county fails to pay their property taxes, then after a certain period of time, the county sells their interest in the property, that is the taxes, interest, and penalties owed, to some investor in order to make up for their lost tax revenue.

As a result, lots of properties can be bought for ridiculously low prices at a tax sale. Why? Because you’re not dealing with a normal property owner who cares about getting full market value, you’re dealing with the local government. It is not the government’s goal to get rich off every property they sell. They just want to get these properties off their books and in return, get the money they are owed.






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