Choose if Tax Liens Are For You
Before you can even decide to get involved with tax lien certificates, you should understand the rewards involved as well as the risks.
You need to realise some typical terms and methods like bidding down the interest, bidding on the premium, bidding on the ownership and redemption periods. When you get to the point where you have a good understanding of tax lien investing you should then determine if this suits your personality.
If you decide that this is something you want to get into, then proceed to Tip #2.
Find A Good Website For Purchasing Tax Liens
Locating a website to buy tax liens is actually easy to do. Tax lien sales are processed at the courthouse so you should probably start by finding the website of tax collector for county you want to invest in.
You could use the google search engine and enter terms like "buy tax liens in texas" or "counties in texas with tax lien sales." Replace texas with whatever state you are interested in. For example, if I wanted to invest in a county in Florida I would type in "Florida Tax Collector" in the Google search engine.
Using google will turn up a lot of results for tax lien investing and allow you to even sign up for a few auctions from the comfort of your couch.
Sign up With some Tax Lien Websites
Keep in mind that not all Tax Lien auctions are available online so your county of choice may not be available.
Be ready to fill in personal information about yourself such as your social security number, bank routing info or credit card info for funding and payment purchases, this is normal. You may also need to fund or provide funding for your account which will be used to purchase the Liens if you win a successful bid.
Understand how the Tax Lien Bidding process works
There are several different types of bidding methods involved in a tax lien auction. In the event that there is more than one tax lien investor one of several bidding methods are used.
Depending on the laws of the county, the bid winner will be determined by one of the five methods below. Bid Down the Interest.this is where several investors negotiate to see who will accept the lowest interest rate among all the bidders. In some cases the interest rate can go as low as 0%, but this is rare.
Premium.With this method investors are fighting to see who will pay the most for the lien. The additional premium may or may not earn interest, and (in some states) the investor might not get the additional premium back if the lien is redeemed. Colorado is a state that uses the premium bid method.
Random Selection.the order of bidders is selected at random with the random selection method. It is common for a computer to do the random selection, however in smaller counties other methods may be used. Nevada uses the random selection method.
Rotational Selection. Using this method the liens are offered to the bidders in sequential order. In the event that bidder number 1 refuses the lien that is offered, the bidder with the next number will have priority over all the other bidders. However, bidder number one will not be offered another lien until their ticket number comes up again in the rotation. Once bidder 1 bids, bidder 2 gets to bid, then bidder 3, then 4 and so on...then back at 1 and repeat.
Bid Down the Ownership. The winning bid goes to the tax lien investor willing to accept the least percentage of ownership on the lien. For example, an investor may decide to take a lien on only 85% of the property. If the lien is not redeemed, the bid winner only receives 85% ownership of the property with the remaining 15% owned by the original owner. In actuality, very few investors will bid on liens for less than full ownership to the property.
So in the even there are multiple bidders on the same tax lien, the random selection method will be used. Liens not sold at auction are considered "struck" (or sold) to the entity (usually the county) conducting the auction. Some states allow "over the counter" purchases of liens not sold at auction.
Before you can even decide to get involved with tax lien certificates, you should understand the rewards involved as well as the risks.
You need to realise some typical terms and methods like bidding down the interest, bidding on the premium, bidding on the ownership and redemption periods. When you get to the point where you have a good understanding of tax lien investing you should then determine if this suits your personality.
If you decide that this is something you want to get into, then proceed to Tip #2.
Find A Good Website For Purchasing Tax Liens
Locating a website to buy tax liens is actually easy to do. Tax lien sales are processed at the courthouse so you should probably start by finding the website of tax collector for county you want to invest in.
You could use the google search engine and enter terms like "buy tax liens in texas" or "counties in texas with tax lien sales." Replace texas with whatever state you are interested in. For example, if I wanted to invest in a county in Florida I would type in "Florida Tax Collector" in the Google search engine.
Using google will turn up a lot of results for tax lien investing and allow you to even sign up for a few auctions from the comfort of your couch.
Sign up With some Tax Lien Websites
Keep in mind that not all Tax Lien auctions are available online so your county of choice may not be available.
Be ready to fill in personal information about yourself such as your social security number, bank routing info or credit card info for funding and payment purchases, this is normal. You may also need to fund or provide funding for your account which will be used to purchase the Liens if you win a successful bid.
Understand how the Tax Lien Bidding process works
There are several different types of bidding methods involved in a tax lien auction. In the event that there is more than one tax lien investor one of several bidding methods are used.
Depending on the laws of the county, the bid winner will be determined by one of the five methods below. Bid Down the Interest.this is where several investors negotiate to see who will accept the lowest interest rate among all the bidders. In some cases the interest rate can go as low as 0%, but this is rare.
Premium.With this method investors are fighting to see who will pay the most for the lien. The additional premium may or may not earn interest, and (in some states) the investor might not get the additional premium back if the lien is redeemed. Colorado is a state that uses the premium bid method.
Random Selection.the order of bidders is selected at random with the random selection method. It is common for a computer to do the random selection, however in smaller counties other methods may be used. Nevada uses the random selection method.
Rotational Selection. Using this method the liens are offered to the bidders in sequential order. In the event that bidder number 1 refuses the lien that is offered, the bidder with the next number will have priority over all the other bidders. However, bidder number one will not be offered another lien until their ticket number comes up again in the rotation. Once bidder 1 bids, bidder 2 gets to bid, then bidder 3, then 4 and so on...then back at 1 and repeat.
Bid Down the Ownership. The winning bid goes to the tax lien investor willing to accept the least percentage of ownership on the lien. For example, an investor may decide to take a lien on only 85% of the property. If the lien is not redeemed, the bid winner only receives 85% ownership of the property with the remaining 15% owned by the original owner. In actuality, very few investors will bid on liens for less than full ownership to the property.
So in the even there are multiple bidders on the same tax lien, the random selection method will be used. Liens not sold at auction are considered "struck" (or sold) to the entity (usually the county) conducting the auction. Some states allow "over the counter" purchases of liens not sold at auction.
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