In my experience, when you purchase a tax lien certificate on a good property, it almost always redeems.
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Now before you start thinking ”Why didn’t you just purchase a property with a house on it instead of vacant land,” there’s something that you need to know about tax deed sales. Tax sales can be extremely competitive and anything with a house on it is going to bid up to 80% or more of its value. So when you see a picture on a late night infomercial, or anywhere else, of a cute house that somebody bought at a tax sale for a couple of hundred dollars, ask to speak to the person who actually purchased it and get the full story. In my experience and in my neck of the woods, it just doesn’t happen that way. But don’t take my word for it. If you live in a tax deed state, go to a tax sale and check it out for yourself.