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How do over the counter tax deeds work?
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William Bannister is absolutely correct.
Here's some examples of tax sale properties that I've seen:
bottom of man-made lake
side of cliff 50 feet tall
Army bombing range
Expired land lease for river front cottage totalled by flood 30 years ago
Expired lease for TV tower pre-cable, that was already removed from property
Land only with building owned by another party who had pre-paid their lease for 30 years, so if you bought you would start collecting rent in 3 decades.
super fund toxic waste site
Abandoned gas station with leaking under ground tanks
Abandoned steel mill
house with only 3 walls as the rear wall collasped into back yard
house on city demolistion list
Strip of land 2 feet wide, left over from road widening project
Landlocked residual land from highway project
Abandoned Quarry
Abandoned junk yard, various colored ground stains from antifreeze, gasoline, oil, automitive fluids and metal parts.
Slag pile
Chromnium factory
Abandoned building filled with 55 gallon drums of unknown liquids
Ravines
Wetlands
Flood ways
Drainage ditches
Site with endangered species
Garbage dump
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