As referred to above there are a lot of obscure changes (obscure to most anyway) that are happening right now that the average real estate will know nothing about.

Maybe you weren't aware of this: from AmericanThinker"In only five more days (25 days and counting, as of today), a heretofore obscure threshold will be reached, enabling permanent layoffs of bureaucrats furloughed 30 days or more."

Tax sale is no longer some obscure investment only a few know about.

You are right about its obscurity and it is very generous of you to share the idea especially since developers seem to be very busy in Snohomish County so I can see where you are going with this.The $270Ks price was true in midsummer but you are right about the land being the real value. 

And, it's a cowardly insult, making insults via obscure words to do such but in a hidden manner.

It's a thing.the other thing i got.. there is some obscure office that holds money in oregon.. like when bank account closes and they cant find anyone. they send it to the state.. and in oregon its some thing like the division of mining  something crazy like that.but I checked in and sure enough when i sold my big house.. there was impounds and they mailed it and it never got forwarded so about 5 years later I stumble in it.. just over 8900 . 

Erik, even before the era of fake news, I learned not to trust everything I read from obscure sources, especially if I can't corroborate it with other sources (and especially some that I know to be trustworthy).Based on my experience in investing internationally and knowing the subject pretty well, I'll make a few comments about this ranking:1.

Not only do the shrubs detract from the style of the property by obscuring those columns, they also confuse the eye with their symmetry,  The most important aspect of the curb appeal of any house is the front door.  

We should be thinking about Land Trusts for ease of conveyance and to be able to obscure the actual owner of the property from the public record.

We do this by creating a system of legal entities and trusts spread among different states that are isolated from each other for liability purposes and that obscure actual ownership of the asset.