Hello @Ree Council and welcome to Bigger Pockets!

In that case I would defer to legal council.

One of my friends is in the same kind of situation as you and is a British citizen, we have looked at properties in UK but we are very fearful of the property taxes . . . do you have any idea how much the property (Council) taxes are?

Anyone with experience in dealing with the Elkhart City? My property manager said to me that my house in Elkhart cannot be rented out until the Elkhart City has completed their inspection of the 'inside'. I have rec...

get it on the city council's agenda, letters to the other property owners, and a rubber-stamp from the city.

You MUST have good legal council.

I used to sit on their safety council as a subcontractor.

Interesting they sell for less than the tax due, here it's the entry bid.You'd think they would see that as a ploy of tax evasion.Guess you could out bid the owners then for the cash flow.I suspect the best way to approach the city would be throgh a city council person, not employees as the method would likely require council approval for volunteers to do the leg work and charge a fee to attach to the property.

Other thing that is going on as of today is I asked them to consider duplexs, so they are having a city council meeting to discuss rezoning.

They city council has given approval for the sale but the state has some rights of refusal on it.