Depending on the state, this means they must give you proper notices and publish proper notices of foreclosure and set a sale date to sell the property at auction to the highest and best bid at a date in the future that is no less then the law allows in that state. 

The reality is tax liens are sold at auctions.

I am looking at a property that I found out will be in an online auction.

Ask as many questions pre auction as possible at county office and speak to local realtors about land sales.

It's a reverse auction where you post the job, info, and photos of what you want done and the max you are willing to pay and contractors bid the price down from there.

I probably won't use auction .com for wholesaling.

We have a lot of weight (and liquid capital) behind us, so we can negotiate faster and harder than an individual, we know how tax auctions work and can place competitive bids, we're built to find solid properties that need work, and buy them as cheaply as possible.

I had an acquisition similar to this from a tax deed auction. 

In my experience it should not be your responsibility to pay the lien, it will get paid off prior to or at close.With that said, I have represented buyers and have personally purchased properties off of all the auction sites here in CT and in a lot of the cases the title did not come back clean initially.

Pissed off the court house steps folks big time.. as they were all ready to bid only to have it pulled from the auction.