Instead of dedicated legal support, they use some third-party "legal platform" (in the cloud?)

To support my seller and seize a valuable opportunity, my business partner and I decided to purchase the property ourselves.

Your job, your savings, sounds like you have a supportive dad, you live in a place you evidently love, you’ve had exposure to the business.

So you will have support along the way, and we can answer any questions as they come up. 

I sure have to learn the terminology and implications of certain aspects and im sure I will but it very much helps having such helpful resources as the contributing folks in the forum here.Thank you all for your support!

It lacks organization, members are logged into WhatsApp and the community is expected to support one another.

You will learn to be efficient with your marketing dollars and time and the community is very supportive.

The only big issue I ran into is on of the basement walls needed extra support, I don't think a newer build would have that issue. 

To support my seller and seize a valuable opportunity, my business partner and I decided to purchase the property ourselves.

Have proof on hand (easy enough to find) online of the missed tax payments and any documentation that supports that he specifically didn't pay his taxes.Probably a simply mistake on his part, but now if he wants to develop on it, he either has to land lease it from you or buy it back.I'm not sure how the whole tax deed thing works, so that would be something you have to figure out between the two of you.