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All Forum Posts by: Christine Garnier

Christine Garnier has started 13 posts and replied 45 times.

I am a professional property/land locator and wholesaler and I am looking for serious partners to collaborate with. If you are a serious investor or an established investment company, please feel free to contact me. I locate all type of properties, including commercial land, buildings and hotels nationwide. I do full due diligence on all properties so you don't have to.  Please PM me for more details. 

Post: Wholesalers in Vegas!

Christine GarnierPosted
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Hi Hector, I just sent you a message.

Hi Amie, I just sent you a message.

I am a professional property locator and I am looking to work with established real estate investment companies or serious real estate investors who are already making multiple closes a month. I am also specialized in wholesaling properties and large land lots and I can bring the exact properties the investors are looking for. Prior securing a deal, I also perform a full due diligence on the property to avoid any potential issue at closing. Feel free to contact me for more info.

Denise, I bought several tax liens last year and had first right of refusal this year, so I was able to buy the second tax lien for the parcels. Do you know if the first right of refusal is maintained under the new law? 

Quote from @Denise Evans:

The law changed it to 4 years after the first auction, or the first sale by the tax collecting official. So, if the lien does not sell in Year 1, and you buy Year 1 and Year 2 liens in the Year 2 auction, then the 4 years starts on the date of the Year 2 auction.  

You must still own all of the sold tax liens up until the date you bring your foreclosure lawsuit.

Anyone with redemption rights can ask for a public auction. That seems like a bad thing for investors, but it actually creates a lot of opportunities AND makes it much less like the foreclosure lawsuit will be attached on constitutional grounds and run up huge legal fees while your lawyer fights those issues.

 Thank you so much for the information Denise. Alabama tax lien investing looks less and less attractive as time goes by. The certificate system was one of the greatest investment in AL. Now to think that we would have to wait 4 years after the first tax sale where other states allow a foreclosure action to take place between 6 months to 3 years, is disappointing and will surely impact tax lien investments in AL. One question remains: how will the "over the counter" tax liens that did not sell at tax auction be processed? If one buys 3 OTC tax liens, can one foreclosure on the property right away?

Quote from @Denise Evans:

Everybody, the law has changed dramatically about tax lien foreclosures in Alabama. It does into effect on 10/1/24 and applies to any liens for which a final order of foreclosure has not been entered by that date.

I think Jocelyn's question was about tax deeds from the state. That related to older system of tax certificate sales that turned into tax deeds without any judicial action taking place. If someone has paid the price quoted by ADOR (Alabama Department of Revenue) and not yet received their tax deed, there are usually two explanations:

1. The governor does not sign those deeds every day.  So, still awaiting governor's signature. Or

2. Someone with redemption rights can redeem up until the deed is signed and delivered to the buyer.  It might have been signed, but not yet put in the mail for delivery, and the former owner or a lienholder asked for a redemption price. 

You should call ADOR Land Division and ask why the delay.


 Thank you so much Denise, so the new law you are referring to is HB. 270, correct? It mentions that an action of foreclosure can be brought after 3 years from the tax sale date but are the 3 tax liens certificate required also? I am trying to find out if the foreclosure action can be initiated after the 3 years, with only one or two tax liens certificates?   

Quote from @Jocelyn Bernstein:

I am in the process of foreclosing on a property in Bessemer. The only thing I have had a problem with is that the owner has until the 25th of May to pay back taxes, but the official deed won’t be available until sometime in August. Why would it take 3 months for a deed to become available? 


 If I am not mistaken, the reason why it would take so long to get the deed after a tax lien foreclosure in Alabama is because, the court will also quiet the title for you. This is truly specific to Alabama because other states like Arizona for example require that a separate quiet title action is filed after the foreclosure action. 

UPDATE: Someone from the County contacted me and let me know that (R/S) stands for "Re-Assignment". The property was in tax sale, someone bought the certificate years ago and after 3 years, the County issued a "Reassignment". Good to know.   

Quote from @John Underwood:
Quote from @Christine Garnier:
Quote from @John Underwood:

So if someone bought it at the tax sale and then didn't want it and didn't pay the tax on it, that is a big red flag that they may have found something wrong with the property and decided to let it go.

I would do some research on what you bought.


 Not always. Sometimes, life happens. Different scenarios possible. The property itself is clear. 


 You already had an attorney do a title search?

No issues with zoning?


 Oh yeah, it was done before I purchased the lien. I am still trying to find out what the (R/S) abbreviation means though!