Once you know when the tax sale is coming up in your area, you need to get the list of properties that are in the sale. I use naco.org to find tax sale property lists online for tax lien and tax deed sales. This only works for counties that have this information online. For counties or states that do not have this information online, you can either call the tax collector and ask how to get the tax sale list or you can buy the tax sale list from a tax sale list provider. To find out which counties have tax sale information and tax sale lists online, you can consult my State Guide.
To go to the county’s web site, first go to naco.org and click on the link to find a county. This will bring you to a page with a map of the United States. Click on the state that you are interested in and you’ll be taken to that state’s web page with a list of all of the counties in the state. Find the county that you are interested in and click on that link. You will be taken to the NACO page for that county. Click on the link to the county on the top of the page and you will go to the county’s web site. Note that this will only work if the county has a web site.
Once you’re on the county’s web site, look for a link to the department or county office that is responsible for conducting the tax sale. For most states, this will be the county treasurer or county tax collector. If you’re not sure who is responsible for the tax sale in your state, then consult my State Guide. Once you get to the web site of the person or department that conducts the tax sale, look for a link to a list of tax sale properties. For larger counties, you can usually find this online. The exception to this is the counties in the Northeastern states. A lot of the Northeastern states do not have county tax sales. Instead the tax sales are conducted by the municipality, so instead of looking for the county web site, in Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Rode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Jersey, look for the municipal tax collectors web site – not county web site. New York has both county and municipal sales in some counties.
If you can’t find the tax sale list that you want online, you can always buy a list from a tax sale list provider. Even if you can find the tax sale list online for free, you still may want to purchase the list from a tax sale list provider. That’s because the list that you get from the tax collector does not always have the information that you need. Frequently it will only have a parcel ID number, owner name, and amount due. What you want to know is what is the address of the property, what is the assessment and value of the property, what type or class property is it, and how big is the property. All of this (and sometimes even more information) is included in the detailed list that you can get from tax sale list providers. I talked about some different tax sale list providers in the last podcast episode, “How to Find Out About Tax Sales.” You can listen to that episode to get the names and urls of tax list providers for different areas of the country. Purchasing a detailed tax sale list from one of these companies will save you a lot of work in doing your due diligence.
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How do You Find Out About Tax Sales?
How do you find out about tax sales that are coming up in your state? There are three ways that I know of to find out about tax sales for free or almost for free.You can look in the newspaper, call the tax collector, or go to a web site that sells tax sale lists.
The first way to find out about tax sales coming up in your area is to read the legal notices in the local newspaper. Most counties have to post an announcement about the tax sale, as well as the list of properties that are being offered for sale, in the local paper anywhere from two to four weeks before the sale. This method is not entirely free because you have to buy the paper. You also have to know when the sale is held so that you know when to start looking for it.
A better way to find out when and where the tax sale is held is to call the tax collector, or whoever is responsible for the sale in your state, and ask. Most of the time, this will be the county Treasurer or tax collector, but sometimes tax sales are conducted by the sheriff’s office (particularly in some deed states). One to find out who is responsible for the tax sale is to consult my State Guide. My State Guide is available as an e-book along with another e-book on how to invest in tax liens. Both books are available for $39.95. My state guide is different from the other resources that you can get online, because I don’t just give you the type of investment, interest rate and redemption period for each state. I tell you who is responsible for the tax sales in each state, so that you know who you have to contact, and I tell you whether or not you can get information online and give you a link to that State’s website with links to the counties.
The third way to find out about tax sales is to go to a web site that sells tax sale lists. Sometimes they will provide information about what tax sales are coming up for free. TaxSaleLists.com is a web site that you can register with for free and find out about tax sales throughout the US. For New Jersey and some of the eastern states I use LienSource.com to find out about tax sales. LienSource is the best provider of tax sale information for New Jersey. It’s $49.00 per year for a membership to LienSource but you can get a six month free membership if you mention that you were referred by The Tax Lien Lady. Just call the phone number on the home page of www.liensource.com to find out how to get your 6 months free membership. Bid4Assets.com is a web site that you can go to, to find out about online tax sales. You can check this site periodically to see what online tax sales are coming up. Not all online tax sales are conducted by Bid4Assets. For all Arizona tax sales, I use www.ArizonaTaxLiens.com. Here you can get information on all tax sales for Arizona and order any tax sale lists for counties in Arizona, including lists of leftover liens.
To recap here are the three ways that you can find out about tax sales in your state
Read the legal notices in the local newspaper
Call the tax collector or whoever is responsible for the sale
Go to one of the following web sites to find out about upcoming tax sales:
www.taxsalelists.com
www.liensource.com
www.bid4assets.com
www.ArizonaTaxLiens.com
If you need step-by-step information on how to get started, I have a $7.00 Special Report on the 7 Steps to Building Your Profitable Tax Lien Portfolio that is available at http://yourprofitabletaxlienportfolio.com.
The first way to find out about tax sales coming up in your area is to read the legal notices in the local newspaper. Most counties have to post an announcement about the tax sale, as well as the list of properties that are being offered for sale, in the local paper anywhere from two to four weeks before the sale. This method is not entirely free because you have to buy the paper. You also have to know when the sale is held so that you know when to start looking for it.
A better way to find out when and where the tax sale is held is to call the tax collector, or whoever is responsible for the sale in your state, and ask. Most of the time, this will be the county Treasurer or tax collector, but sometimes tax sales are conducted by the sheriff’s office (particularly in some deed states). One to find out who is responsible for the tax sale is to consult my State Guide. My State Guide is available as an e-book along with another e-book on how to invest in tax liens. Both books are available for $39.95. My state guide is different from the other resources that you can get online, because I don’t just give you the type of investment, interest rate and redemption period for each state. I tell you who is responsible for the tax sales in each state, so that you know who you have to contact, and I tell you whether or not you can get information online and give you a link to that State’s website with links to the counties.
The third way to find out about tax sales is to go to a web site that sells tax sale lists. Sometimes they will provide information about what tax sales are coming up for free. TaxSaleLists.com is a web site that you can register with for free and find out about tax sales throughout the US. For New Jersey and some of the eastern states I use LienSource.com to find out about tax sales. LienSource is the best provider of tax sale information for New Jersey. It’s $49.00 per year for a membership to LienSource but you can get a six month free membership if you mention that you were referred by The Tax Lien Lady. Just call the phone number on the home page of www.liensource.com to find out how to get your 6 months free membership. Bid4Assets.com is a web site that you can go to, to find out about online tax sales. You can check this site periodically to see what online tax sales are coming up. Not all online tax sales are conducted by Bid4Assets. For all Arizona tax sales, I use www.ArizonaTaxLiens.com. Here you can get information on all tax sales for Arizona and order any tax sale lists for counties in Arizona, including lists of leftover liens.
To recap here are the three ways that you can find out about tax sales in your state
Read the legal notices in the local newspaper
Call the tax collector or whoever is responsible for the sale
Go to one of the following web sites to find out about upcoming tax sales:
www.taxsalelists.com
www.liensource.com
www.bid4assets.com
www.ArizonaTaxLiens.com
If you need step-by-step information on how to get started, I have a $7.00 Special Report on the 7 Steps to Building Your Profitable Tax Lien Portfolio that is available at http://yourprofitabletaxlienportfolio.com.
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