It's the same on the Jersey coast where my in-laws had a house for decades.  

Every state has different laws around how tax sales/liens work, and counties within the same state may have different quirks or peculiarities in their process even if they all follow the same laws.

@James Sedano If you feel this strongly in favor of having the trust, I would recommend a firm who specializes in estate law or has a practice group who does rather than a generalist.

At that point, Sally will own all of the liens and will be able to foreclose.Not a lot of people know about the law change.

Check with your state as well as local laws.

This is because the law says you can only depreciate items that wear down over time (i.e., the building and not the land).

Plus, its worth noting that no Retail Priced property will be at a number where you're going to get the benefits of investing (cash flow and equity)What is working now is looking for single family with accessory units or mother-in-law suites, or duplexes.

It showed the upward trajectory in Ogden to be among the most deviated in the country from historic market data.At the time, I thought this to be an interesting and coincidental statistic because Ogden's upward prices were a function of the entire Utah trend and the laws of conformity. 

I realize that, if true,  this is governed by state law rather than federal statutes, and therefore there will be fifty different answers. 

If you are paying cash you will just have to navigate each countries laws about foreign owned property etc.