Online tax delinquent real estate auctions, feast or famine? Post 96


Coach Mitch’s REFLECTIONS

 

Online auctions – the place to be

With the hype surrounding online auctions, is it any wonder that many are making foolish purchases.

If you are going to investigate buying property online using one of the online auction sites – you better be looking carefully at what you are getting.

Often the property can be a great value. See Post 91 A Home For Under $7000.

You MUST be careful

You must look carefully at this auction item, http://cgi.ebay.com/30-08-Acre-Parcel-Tampa-Florida-Tax-Lien-Foreclosure_W0QQitemZ270246133647QQcmdZViewItemQQssPageNameZRSS:B:SRCH:US:101.

The item offered is a Tax Lien Certificate (TLC) for 2003. The current bid is at $140. The auction winner who gets this TLC can foreclose on this property immediately. The property is over 30 acres of lake land near Tampa.

Lake land?

Yes, lake land. That is land, at the bottom of the lake, probably under water. It is in this case. See the property records.

Land Use

Description/Total Land/Land Value

SUBMERGED / 0.00     / $500

Land submerged under lake

Land submerged under lake

Usable land is at bottom left,  the rest is under water.

Usable land is at bottom left, the rest is under water.

The pictures are telling

The entire acreage is within the lake. The auctioneer, to his credit, has presented the information. Do not be deceived by the house on the lakes shore. See the tax record description above – land = 0.00, Land Value = $500. If a house was included, the taxing value would be much higher. Governments do not let any property go untaxed.

What will the winner of the bid do with this property?

If there is boating or other water sports, the new owner could put up a fence and restrict his part of the lake only to paying customers???

If there is a use, I don’t know of one. Maybe you can think of something.

I hope the point is made. Check out the property before you buy.

See Coach Mitch’s “Ridiculously Simple System…” ™ for details.

Hoping for the best for you,

Mitchell Goldstein - Coach Mitch
518-439-6100 until midnight EST
www.CoachMitch.com

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