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NYC Unpaid Taxes and Utilities
Hello Everybody. NYC allows you look up properties that have unpaid water bills as well as unpaid taxes.
Is it worth trying to contact owners of these properties and offer to buy them? For example, when a property owes 60K in taxes and 12K in unpaid water bills, would this qualify as somebody you would target to try and buy the house from them? Seems they are in need of some financial assistance. Just looking for some opportunities.