The first thing that you want to do in order to buy tax liens or tax deeds, once you’ve decided where you’re going to invest, is to find out when and where the tax sales are. So how do you find out about tax sales?
If you are only interested in a few specific counties, you can call the tax collector and find out where and when the tax sale is held and if there is any information available online. If you are investing in different parts of the country, however, or if you really are not sure where you want to start investing and want to see what tax sales are coming up in different states, you can use an online service like Tax Sale Resources.
Tax Sale Resources is a national database for tax sale information. You can see a calendar of upcoming tax sales, and do a custom search to find out what tax sales are coming up. I do a custom search each month for my members to find out what tax deed sales, lien sales, and redeemable deed sales are coming up in the next 30 days. You can search for tax sales in just one state or nationwide. You can search for online tax deed sales, or all the redeemable sales coming up, or only online tax lien sales. You can also search by bidding procedure.
I do a search each month to find out which tax sales are coming up and then let my members know about them in our monthly member training. But members also have access to the Tax Sale Resource database as part of their membership. So they can also search for upcoming tax sales any time they want.
Another web site that you can use to find tax sale information for New Jersey is LienSource.com. Lien Source specializes in providing tax sale lists for New Jersey tax sales. Although you have to pay for the lists, they also have a free membership that allows you access to their tax sale calendar where you can see all of the tax sales that are coming up in New Jersey. Since in New Jersey tax sales are conducted by the municipality, not the county, and there are over 500 municipalities in New Jersey, this is a very helpful resource for investors. You can also get notifications from either Lien Source or Tax Sale Resources of what new tax sale lists are available, this is also helpful in alerting you of which tax sales are coming up.
There is another way of finding out about upcoming tax sales, but it’s doesn’t always work. It all depends on whether the county or taxing district has information online. You can google the county name and the words “tax sale” and see what comes up. The only problem with this is that sometimes you get links to marketers that are selling information on how to invest in tax liens for that county and not the actual county sale information.
A better way to search online for this information is to search for the county tax collector’s web site and then search for the tax sale information. To do this you can start with www.NACO.org which lists all of the counties for each state. Then you can go to that county’s web site and find a link to the tax collector’s web site if they have one. At the very least you can find contact information for the tax collectors office and contact them directly to ask for information about the tax sale.
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