The first thing that you need to do once you decide where you want to invest in tax liens or tax deeds is get the tax sale information and the tax sale list.

But how do you do that?

There are 3 ways that I use to get information about tax sales. The first 2 ways are free. One thing that you can do if you want to find out about tax sales in your county is call the county tax collector or treasurer and ask them for the information about the tax sale. They should be able to tell you when the next tax sale is, where it will be held, and where you can get a list of properties in the tax sale. Some county treasurers will even have this information posted on their web site along with the rules of the sale and registration guidelines.

If you need to look up county information in another state you can use the website www.NACO.org. NACO is the National Organization of Counties, and on this site you can search for a state and get a listing of all of the counties in that state. When you click on the county you can get demographic information for the county and in most cases a link to the county web site where you can search for the tax collector’s and tax assessor’s web sites. Some counties have more information online than others, and you have to be a little bit of detective to find the information on the tax sale if it is in fact posted online – sometimes it isn’t. But you can usually at least find the contact information for the county treasurer so that you can call and get the information about the tax sale.

If you plan on investing in a few counties or in different states you may want to use a service that puts all this information at your finger tips and makes it easy for you to find the tax sale information, get the tax sale lists, and do your due diligence on tax sale properties. www.TaxLienLady-Database.com is a web site that allows you do that. You can search on the database without logging in to find out what tax sales are coming up in a given state, but in order to see the detailed information for the tax sales, including the tax sale list, you need to be a registered user. One of the benefits of having a subscription to the Members Area of TaxLienLady.com is that you get a free membership to the database. To find out more about what else you get with a subscription to the Members Area of TaxLienLady.com, go to www.TaxLienLady.com/Membership.htm.

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