BiggerPockets

Perhaps you could explain the program you are looking for. Any tax lien excess proceeds should be returned to the individual property owner by the county doing the sale. If this is done - what exactly are you looking at doing??

The amount of money any kind of forced auction, especially a tax sale brings in is very little compared to market value. If you could purchase a property far under market value the worst scenario would be to let it go to tax auction. If the aucton brought in no overage, you would lose your entire investment. A better strategy would be to sell it in a non forced sale situation.

Investing in tax liens in the base case is an exotic type investment. Except for a few large players that scan the arena nationwide, it is a real time consuming experience, as most liens are quite small and due diligence takes alot of time. I can investment my money in private (hard money) loans, get a greater return with much less effort.

There are a few conference calls that many investors give on all the information you want to know about tax liens at the end usually you can ask questions. I'm tuning into one tonight best of all its free and at the end you can ask questions !

Goodluck :)