Real Estate-Tax Liens

This category relates to bidding and buying tax liens.

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Ending The 2022 MS Tax Lien Auction On A High Note

For the past 2 years, I had 2 goals when it comes to winning tax lien auction bids.

  • Win at least 3 bids per year
  • Don’t lose money

Starting this year, those goals have changed.

  • I am now 2Xing my winning bids. This means instead of winning 3, I’m winning 6 bids per year.
    • The long term goal is to try to get one tax lien redeemed check in the mail every month.
  • Don’t lose money.
    • By this I mean, I will be sticking with my plan to not bid more than a specific percentage of dollar amount so that I set the company up to make money.

During my research, this year, I put a lot of focus on properties where the owners didn’t live in the county or state.

I WON 6 BIDS THIS YEAR!

The properties include land in an existing developed sub-division and single family homes. I stayed within the range of not bidding more than 15% and I hope it pays off.

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Applying Tax Lien Lessons from 2020 towards the Upcoming 2022 MS Tax Lien Auction

August 29th is currently the scheduled date for the MS Tax Lien fall auctions.  I purchased three last year and I have only received funds from one of them so far.  I talk about buying tax liens in my ebook Trials and Tribulations of a Rookie Real Estate Investor.

I’m going to breakdown how much money I actually earned on the one I received recently.

MS Tax Lien Redeemed
  • The delinquent amount on the property was listed at  $319.38.
  • I overbid $25.00 which means I paid $344.38.
  • The owner had accrued $57.49 in interest.
  • I received a check for $376.87 less than a year later.
  • $376.87 –  $344.38 = 32.49. 
  • I made a profit on one tax lien of $32.49. 
  • That is a little over 9% interest I earned.

YOU CANNOT GET A RETURN LIKE THAT WITH A REGULAR SAVINGS ACCOUNT!

This year I have a better strategy.  I wrote a 9 step checklist for myself to follow starting from reviewing my past purchased tax liens to placing pre-bids. It’s a similar checklist I have written about in previous blog posts. The checklist is in a specific order because there are things I have to do before pre-bidding starts.  In 2020, I lost money and I wrote about in Another Tax Lien Redeemed and A Lesson Learned blog post.

In order to avoid this moving forward, I will stick to bidding  15% or less.

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Where Is My Mailbox Money??

I refer to mailbox money as money that I receive in the mail from my tax lien investments. It’s a nice surprise to receive money after investing especially if I’ve kinda forgotten about it.

However, due to everything going on today, I’m wondering what’s going on. This time last year, I had received checks for two of the three tax liens I had purchased and I haven’t received any from the ones I purchased last year.

As I listen to the news, podcasts and read FB posts from other real estate investors, I’m wondering if it’s gotten so bad that people cannot afford to pay their property taxes. Will that mean, that tax lien investors will get opportunities to obtain properties at an even lower price than buying them from the MLS or by doing seller financing deals???

I honestly don’t know!

I buy tax liens for the returns they provide because 10 % is far better than the .01% that a bank savings account gives you.

Plus, bidding is not hard once you set your criteria and stick to it. It just takes a little due diligence.

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2021 MS Tax Lien Auction Closing

I’m pretty sure there may still be some MS Tax Lien Auctions still going, but for me it’s a wrap for 2021. Although, I had planned on winning 6 bids, I won 3.

I almost feel like I have to watch the auction live because I would have missed out on winning the three bids, I did place if I wasn’t watching some of it.

Overall, I think I did pretty well and I’m looking forward receiving some mailbox money after the first of 2022. Why after the first of 2022?

Well, because we are almost into the holiday season and some people are going to be too busy shopping for presents, taking trips, etc, not thinking about those property taxes until tax season which is what I’ve come to love about bidding on tax liens in August.