05th November 2009
Are you stalled in your tax lien investing because you think you need to know more before you get started? Tax lien investing is really not that complex. You just need to follow these 5 basic steps.
1. Choose where you will invest
The first step is t...
15th October 2009
In Pennsylvania, some counties have two different tax sales; the "upset" sale, and the "judicial" sale. If tax sale properties are not sold at either of these two sales, the property then goes on the "repository" list and can be sold by private bid. The u...
22nd September 2009
Purchasing tax deeds calls for some extra due diligence since you actually purchasing the property and not just paying the taxes and putting a lien on the property as you are when you invest in a tax lien. Here is a checklist that you can follow when you ...
22nd September 2009
Not too long ago I received a question from one of the subscribers to my Tax Lien Tips newsletter. He was confused because he saw a tax lien for sale on e-bay that sold for over $4,000. The face value of the lien was only 228.28 with 5% interest on the li...
10th August 2009
What if you are really interested in buying tax liens, but you don’t live in a state that has tax lien sales, and you don’t live within driving distance of a state that does sell tax liens? One alternative to buying tax liens at a physical auction is ...
28th July 2009
Recently someone asked me some questions that I think are on the mind of everyone who is thinking about buying tax liens. People want to know how much money they need to get started in tax lien investing and if this is something that they can use as their...
09th July 2009
I got back from Thailand in May where I made history as the first woman to be head coach for a USA Weightlifting men’s team! I went to Thailand to coach the men’s team for the First Youth World Championship. But I missed the Monroe county Judicial tax...
30th June 2009
It seems that now they’re popping up all over the web – websites that claim that you can purchase tax delinquent houses for only a few hundred dollars. Here’s one that I stumbled across recently, the website is TheSecretCertificate. This site, very ...
18th June 2009
I was still working on a report of an evaluation that I was finishing up for John Beck’s Free & Clear Real Estate System when I came across yet another website selling a tax lien investing program making some outrageous claims. These claims were so outr...
15th June 2009
In April I went to a tax sale in New Jersey. Here’s what I noticed at this tax sale. There were more properties available than last year, but there were also more bidders. A couple of institutional buyers showed up who don’t normally come to this part...
12th June 2009
Lately I’ve been receiving messages from subscribers in other countries – from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and even from parts of Africa, asking if it is possible for them to invest in tax liens and tax deeds in the U.S. market. They want to know ...
12th June 2009
Just after I wrote a review of three of my favorite books about tax lien investing, I got a call asking me if I’d like to review a brand new edition of one of them. A second edition of The 16% Solution, by Joel S. Moskowitz, is now in bookstores and I...
11th June 2009
In Part 1 of this series on tax deed investing, I introduced you to a strategy for cashing in on tax deeds without even going to the tax sale. In this article I’d like to answer some questions that you may have about the excess proceeds strategy that I ...
04th June 2009
I recently received an e-mail from a subscriber in California. He had paid to get a tax sale list for one of the counties in California. He got the list from the county, but it came too late for him to do his due diligence on any of the properties in the ...
20th May 2009
Frequently I get asked this question: “I really want to start investing in tax liens, but I live in a deed state. Should I look into investing in tax liens in another state, or try to invest in tax deeds in my own state.” In this article I’ll give y...
