Alabama Tax Sale investing

[Darrell Hall]

Quick question if a property purchase at a tax sale and I did preservation improvement on it paid taxes 2 yrs and had possession can I get certificate transfer over from family member name too mines without redemption period starting all over or do it remain same after transfer? Cuase I was told in 2019 I can file for deed but I'm trying get it transferred out my sister name  too mines how does this work 

[Denise Evans]

@Darrell Hall, the tax deed can be obtained three years after the auction, no matter who owns the tax certificate on that date. That person can get the tax deed.

Possession is a different issue from the tax deed.  For required periods of possession, the possession of one tax certificate or tax deed owner is "tacked" onto the possession of the next one(s), so that it just has to total three years in all, among all owners, to burn off judicial redemption rights. BUT, it has to be continuous possession. There can be breaks of a week or two or three while ownership changes, but there can't be breaks of several months.