Spring Online Tax Lien Sales – Which Ones Are Worth It?

Posted on April 17, 2021 by Joanne
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What online tax lien sales are coming up this spring?

And which of these sales are worth bidding on?

Thanks to the pandemic in 2020, more tax lien sales have gone online in the last couple of years. Some counties have gone back to having live tax sales, but many are still conducting their tax sales online. And states that only had a couple of counties with online tax sales before 2020, now have more counties with tax sale auctions online…

Here’s the scoop on tax lien sales that are happening online in the next couple of months…

Finishing up this month are the Indiana tax certificate sales. These are among my favorite tax sales and you can read more about them HERE. I did a Done With You training course on these tax sales, but there are still a handful of these sales taking place this month that it’s not too late to register for. And there is one that isn’t taking place until early in June. You can still get access to this 4 module training at https://taxlienlady.com/Indiana.

Nassau County New York, has a big online tax lien auction in February each year. But this year due to the pandemic the sale was postponed until May.  The auction is on RealAuction.com and registration is open until April 23. Bidding ends on May 5. I am not a fan of this tax sales for multiple reasons. This sale was very competitive before it went online and now that it’s online it’s even more competitive. Also there is a hefty deposit necessary to bid ($5000 minimum), which is 10% of your budget. That means you have to have a minimum budget for this sale of $50,000. And there is a non-refundable registration fee of $175. This sale is not for beginners!

The state that is probably best known for it’s online tax lien auctions, and one of the first states to have online tax sales is Florida. Those tax sales happen in May of each year. While most of these auctions were already online. (There were only about 10 counties left that didn’t have online tax lien sales). Now they are all online. Competition in this state is very competitive and good liens typically get bid down to 0.25% interest. While I like this state better than Arizona (who’s online tax sales are over already for this year), it’s not one of my favorite tax lien investing states.

Two other states on the eastern seaboard also have tax sales this time of year, and have increased the number of these tax sales that are online. Those states are Maryland and New Jersey. New Jersey is the state that I started investing in. And while I do like that state for investing, it is one of the more complicated states for bidding, and also very competitive. Like Nassau County, NY, these tax sales were competitive when they were live and are even more competitive now that they’re online. Also the live tax sales do not require advance registration and deposits, but the online tax sales do.

Maryland is also a complicated state to bid in. But what I like about Maryland is that the interest rate is not bid down. Instead premium is bid – which means the price of the lien is bid up. The other things that I like about Maryland are the short redemption period – only 4 months. Each county in MD has different rules and different interest rates, so you must pay attention to the rules of the sale for each county!  Because Maryland tax sales are someone complicated, but I also think it’s one of the better states to invest in, I’ll be teaching another Done With You training for the Maryland tax sales in May.

Other states with online tax sales coming up are Louisiana and Alabama. I am not a fan of the tax lien auctions in either of these states for different reasons. In Louisiana I’m not crazy about the bidding procedure, they bid down the percent ownership of the property should the lien not redeem and the tax lien investor foreclose on the property. Owning anything less than 100% is not enough leverage in my estimated to get paid on your lien. What I don’t like about investing in Alabama is 2 things, how long it takes for properties to get into the tax sale and the long (3 year) redemption period. I prefer to invest in states with shorter redemption periods – the shorter the better!

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Are You Ready to Make Tax Lien Investing Easier and More Profitable?

Posted on April 2, 2021 by Joanne
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Want to make tax lien investing easier? Chances are pretty high that if you’re reading this, you’re not happy with the return that you’re getting on your tax lien investments. Or maybe you haven’t even started to invest in tax liens or tax deeds because you feel that:

  • You don’t know enough to get started
  • You might make a mistake that will cost you your hard earned money
  • You don’t have the tools and resources you need
  • You don’t know where to start or where to find the tax sale information
  • You don’t know where to go to get the right guidance
  • There’s so much competition out there that you probably won’t be able to get good deals anyway

Maybe you never got started because you don’t know how to get the tax sale information or the confidence to go forward.

Or, even worse…

maybe you have gone ahead and started investing in tax liens or tax deeds and instead of making money you lost money because you didn’t know the right places to invest, or how to quickly and easily find the right liens or deeds to bid on.

If this describes where you’re at right now, there is hope. It doesn’t have to be this way. You can take control of your investments. You can start investing your money for double digit returns (or better) in something more secure than the stock market. You can get the confidence to invest in tax liens or deeds, whether you have a small or large amount of money to invest.

I would love to introduce you the secrets of how to make tax lien investing easier, fun, and more profitable. One of these secrets is finding the right type of tax sales to go to, whether they are online or live. Tax sales where the interest rate is not bid down and you make money on your entire bid amount. And in states that have less competition from hedge funds and shorter redemption periods so that you don’t have to wait years to get paid!

Want to talk to me about finding the best places to invest and the best properties to bid on? I usually charge $200 for a 30 minute consultation with me, but you can schedule a free coaching session with me when you fill out the form at https://taxlienlady.com/mentoring-application.

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New Resource For Finding Tax Sale Results

Posted on March 12, 2021 by Joanne
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I am constantly finding new resources for tax lien investing! 

Just last week someone told me about a resource for finding tax sale results that I hadn’t known about before. This website is really for people who are interested in finding tax sale overages, but it does list some tax lien sale results along with results from deed sales, sheriff sales, and tax sale overages.

It doesn’t have tax sale results for all states, but it does have results for a few of the tax lien states, as well as the tax deed states. I’m currently teaching a done with you training for the Indiana Commissioner Tax Certificate sales. I love these tax sales, for a lot of reasons:

  1. The interest rate does not get bid down
  2. You get interest (it’s actually a penalty) on the total bid amount
  3. The starting bid has been lowered (lower than the taxes owed)
  4. And the redemption period is only 4 months

This resource did have tax sale results for Indiana tax lien sales, but only for a couple of the commissioner’s tax certificate sales, which are the ones that I was interested in. I made a very short video of how to use this resource, and how to find past tax sale results in Indiana. I’ve added the video to Module 2 of the Indiana Commissioner’s Sale training.

I’m doing this training for the first time this year for 2 reasons. I took a coaching client to one of these sales in 2019, and he did very well. And I really liked the process for these tax sales. The other reason I decided to conduct this course this year, is because of the COVID pandemic, a few of these tax sales are online. Now you can participate in the Indiana Commissioner’s Sales online and get step-by-step, hands-on training!

Currently there are 17 Indiana Counties with Commissioner’s Tax Certificate Sales open for registration (that I know of) and 10 of them are online. The 6 week, 4 module  done with you training started last week. And we had our first live mentoring call last Wednesday. We still have 3 of these mentoring calls scheduled over the next month. On our next live call, we’ll be joined by an Indiana tax lien attorney, who will fill us in on exactly what you have to do after you get one of these liens and what it takes to get the property if the lien doesn’t redeem in 4 months.

To learn all about this training and find out if this is the hands on training that you need to get started go to https://taxlienlady.com/indiana-online-commissioners-sales.

If you would like to see an interview with Ollie Thompson, the coaching client that I went to a Commissioner’s tax sale with a couple of years ago, and watch him tell you exactly how he did, you can read the previous blog post at  https://taxlieninvestingtips.com/2021/02/28/indiana-commissioner-sales.

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Investing For Success Conference March 2021

Posted on February 20, 2021 by Joanne

We had another Investing For Success Conference on March 6, 2021.

I am fiercely committed to empowering people with the knowledge and understanding to take control of their money and their investments. For this reason, I’ve created a virtual event where I interview some fabulous experts. We did our first Investing For Success conference in January and it was an absolute success! And we just did it again on March 6 with a couple of small changes. Our first conference was in the middle of the week, and it was all day – 6 hours of interviews! This time we want more people to be able attend the entire conference live for free, so we are doing it for half a day – 3 hours, on a Saturday.

The live virtual event took place on Saturday March 6, from 11am – 2pm Eastern time. The other thing that was different about this conference is that we had all female speakers in this event . I interviewed 5 amazing ladies that are experts in various aspects of making, managing, and investing your money. The theme of this conference is the same as before, “Investing For Success,” and the focus is on helping you have peace of mind for your money, your investments, and your retirement. And although all of our experts are ladies in this event, it is open to both men and women.

Here are just a few of the highlights:

  • Dr. Cari Skrdla kicked off the conference, talking about the knowledge-doing gap, what holds us back from taking action and how to get into action and change your live to get the outcome you want.
  • Our next expert, Sally Gimon, spoke about how you can use the infinite banking concept to pay off debt faster and have more money to invest.
  • Then we heard from Nakia Magazine on how to get money for your business or your real estate investing (especially for women entrepreneurs)
  • My long time friend Rhea Perry followed Nakia with information on what it means to leave a legacy and how to educate your children and grandchildren to be entrepreneurs
  • And finally another long time friend of mine, that I have done successful investments with in the past, Lena Sells of PIPGroup, told us how we can partner with PIP in the Savannah real estate market on some very profitable real estate deals!

It’s not too late to get the replay of the entire conference and create your plan for living a prosperous 2021. What will you claim for yourself in the upcoming year? What action steps will you take? Investing in a new profitable strategy? Setting up your Infinite Banking account? Putting that money in your retirement account to work? Or starting a home business? Or will you start paying down your debt faster?

When you watch the recorded Investing For Success conference, you will experience:

  • Powerful interviews from 5 amazing ladies that will inspire and support you in the discovery of how to manage your money and invest your money for greater returns.
  • Some of our experts will be giving away powerful courses, books, and other material to help you manage your money and your life better.
  • Discover Investment strategies that you may not have heard about that could help you make up for lost time.
  • Hear stories of how others have overcome their money challenges.
  • You might even find a new coach or mentor to help you!

You can get lifetime access to the recording of the entire event and links to access what each of our experts so generously gave our live audience by CLICKING HERE

This is for you if you want to learn how to make money from home, manage your money more effectively, take control of your retirement accounts and have your money work harder for you. This is for you if you want to learn about investment strategies that are not tied to the stock market. This is for you if you want your money to grow faster for retirement, and if you want to live the life you love now!

Did you know that you can have an insurance policy that lets you accumulate savings at high interest, borrow from the money in that account, while it’s still earning interest.

And how would you like to learn strategies  to help you take the actions necessary  so that you can be successful?

It’s only $97 to get lifetime access, but it’s only available this month, so Register Today!

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Protect Your Investment in Tax Liens

Posted on February 2, 2021 by Joanne

protect your investment in tax liensHow do you protect your investment in tax liens? That all depends on which state or municipality you are investing in. In Florida, for example you don’t pay subsequent taxes until the redemption period is over and you can apply for tax deed. In other states you can pay subsequent taxes but you don’t have do. But there are counties and municipalities that force the tax lien holder to pay them.

How do they force the investor to pay the subsequent taxes on their tax lien property? There are 2 ways they can do this. In Arizona for example there some counties that will send the bill for subsequent taxes to the tax lien holder. And if the investor doesn’t pay them by the required date, they will sell his or her lien with the current lien in the next tax sale. The investor will get paid on their lien, but will not retain any right to foreclose on the property. They will not keep their lien on the property.

There is also another way that a taxing district could force the tax lien investor to pay subsequent taxes. That is to take away their right to property if they don’t make the tax payments! That’s what they do in one city in the state of New York. So to protect your investment in tax liens in this NY city, you must pay your subsequent taxes. And you have to pay them on time. Because if you’re late paying them you will lose your investment!

 

 

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