Delinquent Taxes list

[Nakeisha D.]

I have a list that I bought from the county of delinquent tax properties. I’m not sure what to do with them. Not even clear on what all of the data means. Any insight on how I could leverage this data to get started would be greatly appreciated!!!

Oh & thank you all for being so supportive & helpful!!

[John Underwood]

Are you going to the tax auction? What state is this for?

How much data do you have? Some are basic some are very detailed.

You can often filter by FMV, Taxes owed, if owner lives at property address or elsewhere, how many years they are behind etc.

I filter my list and eliminate too cheap and too expensive FMV.

Once I have the data pruned down I start looking at every thing on GIS and Google street view.

I eliminate stuff I'm not interested in. You will find things like retention ponds, land locked property, a sliver of land etc.

Then I start driving. I drive up to 1000 properties for the auction. I rank them and put my max bid in the spreadsheet so that I can follow a fast paced auction and try and get some deals on properties that I would want to own. 

In my state of SC you get your money back plus interest or a deed shows up in the mailbox after the 12 month redemption period has run out.