Lists of Homes in Severe Tax Delinquency

[Alvin Grier]

I was recently asked by a colleague if it's possible to obtain a list of homes that are in severe tax delinquency, to the point where the home is going to be lost soon, due to a tax lien.

Is it possible to purchase these kinds of leads?

The website for one of our target local municipalities will show if a specific property is delinquent on taxes, however the problems with that are that:

1) We'd have to search search by property address, and we won't know what addresses to search for, being that we're looking for a list of properties that are in this situation.

and

2) Just because a property shows on the website as being in delinquent status, doesn't necessarily mean that the county has necessarily served the owner with a notice that the property is in danger of being taken soon.

Thanks in advance.

P.S. I noticed someone mentioned buying "defaulted tax lists" in this thread here on Biggerpockets, but I didn't see anything regarding the names of vendors that sell them.  I didn't find anything when I Google'd the phrase "defaulted tax lists", or anything similar.