All Forum Posts by: Denise Evans

@Kirk Blackmon, how do you know the house is half on your lot? Those satellite images superimposed on GIS maps are distorted because the earth is curved but the map is flat. Virtually all of those things that appear to be encroachments are really built on their own lots, not partially on neighboring lots.

@Kirk Blackmon, how do you know his house house is half on the other lot? Satellite images superimposed on GIS maps are distorted by the effects of orthographics.

@Lan Raby, it is on my website, www.TaxSales-Alabama.com,under "Classes, Books, etc."

@Sam Bagwell, just FYI, no Alabama title company will insure title without a quiet title order that is final and non-appealable AND they order up a copy of the court file to review and make sure there were no defects that robbed the court of jurisdiction.  There are a surprising number of quiet title lawsuits that sue for ejectment and quiet title, which automatically kills jurisdiction because you must have possession before you can quiet title in Alabama, by statute. Other similar things rob the court of subject matter jurisdiction. There might be incomplete personal jurisdiction issues if the newspaper notices were not run properly, and similar matters. It generally adds an extra 30 days to the closing time period for court file review, and then you might get bad news at the end.

@Erica Brown, all of the answers to your questions depend on the details of the particular property and particular background circumstance. You have probably not wasted your money, but you must do exactly the right things in the right order to be protected.

@Hiren Desai, Jefferson County will be June 4.

@Jennifer Watson, 2019 Baldwin County tax sale resulted in 80% of the properties going straight to 0% interest.  I doubt those investors will do the same thing this year, so there might actually be some bargains to be picked up.

@Devon Daniels they can until redemption rights expire by passage of time limits

@Devon Daniels, assuming they still have redemption rights and time has not expired, they get a reset. Even original lender would get a reset if they’d kept the loan. 

Sorry, @Nfrtari Ramesra, it's not justonelook.com.  My fingers got carried away with themselves when I was typing. It's justonelook, but you get there from the Alabama Administrative Office of Court's website.