Was it indeed just locked, or did the latch mechanism fail, which often happens with bedroom sets that have plastic components in that mechanism; or did the screws that secure the latch into the door come loose, allowing the latch and/or the screws to prevent the door from opening...also not an uncommon event.

The company’s claim to have relaunch failed big name retailers is complete fiction.b.

And the fact that your post had at least three votes for it when I posted this shows that there are lots of other people who would probably be losing in PA under those same assumptions that just happen to be FALSE in Pennsylvania.Pennsylvania has some rather complicated rules when it comes to tax sales; the particular type of sale that the OP purchased at is one that does not divest any liens; it simply changes the party that is the owner, with the new owner taking title subject to all liens and encumbrances of record.With tax sales, the buyer must be aware of all the local rules under which the tax sale is being conducted, because the rules vary all over the place.Now, what the OP seems to have failed to do in his research was to cross index the recordings at the county recorder; the "missed" mortgage would have showed up on a search by parcel number if that sort of cross check was done (and assuming all indexed documents at the recorder are properly indexed of course - I have seen mistakes made attaching a document to the wrong parcel).

There's a separate thread on partnerships and the general sentiment is that majority of partnerships will fail.

From what I read to many investors talking lease to own folks into these contracts without fully qualify them and then when the lessor fails you boot them out and keep their down payment.. 

When you have both, it's very hard to quit and when you find it hard to quit-- it's likely you won't fail. 

Fail UP.

put another way:-Go on Zillow and buy a random property in Detroit: fail, lose money, give up on real estate investing.

I'm new the notes world and frankly the 3-year locked in PPR preferred return of 12% seems almost too good to be true if they in 16 years have never missed a payment or failed to repay principal.

If you fail, you can raise capital for my projects and will give you another Co-GP title. .......Or you can organically grow your real estate portfolio and credit worthiness &  keep the $30K.