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Juan Carlos Castillo
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South Florida Tax Sales

Juan Carlos Castillo
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Looking to learn more about Florida Tax Sales, Liens, Certificates & Deeds. I read  a book recently by Larry Loftis, but am still kind of confused. My main question is, if you purchase a tax certificate/lien, renew the lien the following year, and they don't pay again, do you automatically get the deed/can you file for quite action title or do you have to go to the deed auction as well?

Anybody in South Florida (Broward County) actively investing in tax sales that would be willing to take me under their wing?

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Wayne Brooks#1 Foreclosures Contributor
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Wayne Brooks#1 Foreclosures Contributor
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 Buying a tax cert in FL gives you absolutely no advantage in owning the property.  After 2 years, if not redeemed, you can send the property to a Tax Deed auction, where the actual property will be auctioned off by public auction.

To do this you have to pay an application fee along with all the other outstanding Certificates.  This total you have paid becomes the minimum opening bid.  If no one bids that amount, you get the property.

But, the tax deed auctions are very competitive and in the rare event you end up with the property, that means no one else was willing to pay that much.....which would tell you it was not a good deal.

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