All Forum Posts by: Drew Valentine

Thanks again @David Krulac.  Understood on the legal advice point and grateful for the guidance. These tax deed sales seem like an easy pathway to riches until you do some digging. I appreciate you being around when I dug. Thanks again.

Thanks @David Krulac . I appreciate your response and your presence on these forums.  You've been very helpful.

You mentioned that the buyer often brings the oversight to the attention of the county and the sale can be voided.  I was going to ask what the remedy would be for a purchaser, so it is good to know that is a possibility. If the county wouldn't or couldn't void the sale, are there other courses of action? Donation of the property to the county per the PA Real Estate Tax Sale Act? My understanding was the purchaser couldn't otherwise challenge the tax sale for lack of notice in court due to lack of standing.

If a bidder at a judicial sale (tax deed) is successful in placing the winning bid and subsequently seeks to quiet title, will that bidder take the property subject to a mortgage / lien if the relevant tax bureau fails to provide notice to the mortgagee or lien holder?  My reading of PA case law (I'm a lawyer but not in PA)  seems to say that if the bureau fails to provide notice, the remedy for the mortgagee / lien holder is that the purchaser takes the property subject to the mortgage / lien and not that the judicial sale is invalidated. The result being that a bidder that avoids this result by not bidding at upset sale ends up in the same position as an upset sale bidder, inadvertently, at no fault of the bidder's and all contrary to the spirit of the written law.  Is this the case?