All Forum Posts by: Ebony King

@Ty Upshaw have you purchased tax deeds in Alabama before? Pleasseeee don’t be fooled into thinking you can just go in and start making repairs. There’s a process that must be followed. This can significantly impact all of the numbers you mentioned above. [Solicitation Removed by Moderators]

I doubt there’s a list, but there are plenty of people who sell them on Facebook Marketplace, Zillow, and Craigslist.

@Denise Evans?

Forgot to add...be sure to do a title search because if there are any liens on the property, you’ll be responsible for those. Whereas if you were to buy the tax deed, many of the liens wouldn’t survive the tax sale.

@Bryan Hartlen Here was my response:

Yes to all of that. You’ll be the new owner of the property. BUT, you need to go down to the county and pay the property taxes ASAP. Even if it’s sold to the state, the owner(which will be you after the quitclaim) can redeem at the county level up until the tax deed is printed. No sense in waiting it out until someone else possibly buys it. Get your quitclaim deed, pay the taxes, enjoy your new property!

@Bryan Hartlen I had already responded to him when he posted his question in a Facebook group. He posted in here shortly after...Do you need the answer, too?

I’m not sure about the tree cutting, but you most certainly won’t get back any money for the other stuff. Those are not the tax payer’s expenses; they are yours. Those are improvements you decided to make. They aren’t “necessary” improvements. As a matter of fact, if you do decide to put a septic system in and they redeem, you will most likely have to pay THEM. The best thing to do is to send them notice, then file an ejectment action and eject them from the land. Or, if you can trace the title history and there was maybe only one previous owner, skip trace their name, call them, and see if you can get a quitclaim deed from them. Oftentimes, if you offer them a few hundred dollars, they’ll gladly give you one! Then it will be your land 100%.

@Arnold Finkelstein I just answered your question on Facebook

@Ashley G.And yea, a lot of it isn’t suitable, but then again, a lot of it is lol! I find a lot of leftover subdivision lots. Developers will buy up a certain amount of acres, split it up into lots, build what they want to build, then move on. The leftovers are still buildable, but the developers are done with the subdivision and have moved on to something else. They never redeem.

@Ashley G. No redemptions so far!