Las Vegas, NV · Member since 2018 · 10 posts · 0 votes
Hi, ive been reading that it's a great place to find leads going through the delinquint tax deeds for a certain area. I have been looking at largo and orlando. It is so hard to find the delinquint tax deeds published online. Does anyone know how I can find that?
Real Estate Broker · Miami, FL · Member since 2018 · 236 posts · 99 votes
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@Carley C. Usually each county has foreclosure auctions published online through the county website. Usually the tax sales are located on the same county website. You'll be able to see all the delinquent taxes up for auction and specific dates for bidding. Good luck!
Real Estate Broker · Miami, FL · Member since 2018 · 236 posts · 99 votes
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@Carley C. Usually each county has foreclosure auctions published online through the county website. Usually the tax sales are located on the same county website. You'll be able to see all the delinquent taxes up for auction and specific dates for bidding. Good luck!
Investor · Miami, FL · Member since 2014 · 50 posts · 36 votes
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@Carley Corbin go must go to that specific counties website and click on auction calendar. There it will show foreclosure and taxdeed auction dates and the amount of properties going up for bidding.
Real Estate Professional · West Palm Beach, FL · Member since 2012 · 23k+ posts · 13k+ votes
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Be advised, these auctions in most counties are very competitive and attended by at least a hand full of pros who do this for a living. Not being local, if you outbid these local guys, you likely over paid.....nothing is going to “slip through the cracks” in the active counties.
I have been to only two in person Tax Deed sales at Collier and Monroe County.
IMO the lists are extremely tight and competition fierce, especially online. Look at past sales and you will see buyers from all different countries (paying way too much).
You also have several big funds Interesting article on the Florida tax lien certificate market:
Las Vegas, NV · Member since 2018 · 10 posts · 0 votes
8y
interesting. years ago my dad bought a house for $15k. he remodeled it and makes $500 a month on for over 10 years. Crazy. It wasnt through tax deeds. He read the newspaper and found the seller. Maybe that's a better route. He's always said you dont want to buy property. You want a steel. And in this crazy real estate market it's tough to find that. Any advice, I'd love to hear!
Nearly all counties will provide tax roll data. That is not what you want. You want unpaid "pre-delinquent" taxes accounts... ie. homeowners who have not yet paid their tax bill for the current year, but still have a few months before the account goes delinquent.
No one markets these homeowners because the tax auditor will not provide a list of people who are "almost delinquent" .
For all intents and purposes, marketing "pre-delinquent" accounts is targeting ALL of the homeowners who WILL go delinquent, and SOME of the homeowners who will pay their tax bill just before the deadline.
The advantage is being first out of the gate.
Data scraping is the only way to aggregate that data. A unique script has to be written, for each county, to iterate through ALL of the accounts, and compiling the data in a database, which can then be queried for accounts which match your criteria.
Iterating through all of the accounts requires exploiting the county's online property tax search. Lets say for example the county requires a property address with at least 3 characters and will provide 100 results per search. We will assume wildcards are not allowed for this example. The script could search for the property address "1000 AA"
if less than 100 results are returned for the search "1000 AA" the script would collect each result link, go to each page and "scrape" the tax account information. The next search would be for "1000 AB".
If more that 100 results were returned an additional letter would be added to the search. "1000 AAA". Again, if less than 100 results, the scrape would occur, and the next search would be for "1000 AAB". If more than 100 results, again, add another letter to reduce the results set.
This is the basic idea of method by which all of the accounts can be accessed. The more complex aspects include circumnavigating the security measures intended to prevent scraping from occurring. The county's web server can utilize cookies, encryption, redirects, javascript, json responses, firewall rules and many other means by which to make scraping difficult.
Utilizing multiple proxy connections reduces the possibility of a firewall banning a single IP address for too rapidly clicking links or performing searches
Some counties require multiple sites to be scraped to build a usable data set. The tax auditor site may not show property owner names, but instead a book/page number for the recorded deed. Which then needs to be searched on the county clerk of courts/recorder site. I've seen cases where the property address, plat map number,and tax information was available on the auditor's site, the plat map number had to be searched on the county GIS site, which referenced a deed book/page number, which could be searched on the recorder's site to link a property address to a name. That example required 3 separate sites to be scraped.
In any case, I can do it.... Send me the county you want the data for, and i'll give you a quote. Typically, 1000 leads minimum, $0.20/per lead. ($200). As a heads up, if you are looking at a county will a small population, there may NOT be 1000 "pre-delinquent" accounts... I have a minimum, because I have to do the amount of work to collect 100 accounts, or 10,000. If it helps, I have found that on average 1 in 40 properties has unpaid tax bill within 3 months of the tax bill due date.
I also provide email append, phone append, and demographic append services for the collected data, and if available by the county deed/mortgage information. As well, I provide deceased spouse Inheritance data (no probate, no gifts.) as recent as 2 months since passing for a premium rate. (yes I can get data a recent as yesterday, no i will not provide it, i do have some semblance of a conscience, so please do not ask)
My pricing is negotiable depending on the county and your requirements.