Need Help With Tax Deed Purchase

[Patrick K]

I have an interest in a piece of land that is coming up for auction at tax sale next week, and I am wanting to cover all the bases.

I checked with the city and county departments and it seems there are no restrictions on the property to be able to build what we want, and there are no additional tax liens on the property with the government.

I am trying to contact Title companies, about conducting a Title search to make sure everything seems as it is since I cant make sense of the public records I found myself.

Is there anything else I need to watch out for or pay attention to?

Any possibilities of getting screwed in purchasing a property at an auction sale?

I still cannot understand why someone would have a $100K+ piece of property and allow it to go into tax foreclosure and not just sell it.....seems so fishy

Any help is appreciated-