Tax sale cleans up the title by removing all the clouds and junk attached. 

I'd look for high days on market, have your agent set up a drip e-mail for listings that meet your criteria, and recent price reductions. 

I received something in the mail from a tax attorney about appealing my taxes to potentially lower them and now am considering it for the first time.

Mind you that this information was mailed to him 5-days after receiving the redemption notice.  

There was a lot of junk everywhere but it was currently being rehabilitated before whoever moved out.

I wonder if the tax forms would be mailed there, and then that trust company will file to IRS to explain it is tax exempt? 

If you are closing outside a title company, which it sounds like this is the situation that you are in, you would simply need to ask an attorney for a note and deed of trust, (once you have completed your 1st transaction, I would ask your title company for a draft Note and Deed of Trust).Once you execute the Note and Deed of Trust, and have it notarized, you simple take it to your local county clerk to have it recorded, the Deed of Trust will have the mailing address of the lien holder, and the original will be mailed to them in 1-2 weeks.Hope that helps, Dustin 

They didn’t have to break the door thankfully but they had to break my $200 touchscreen lock and then sent me a 300+ locksmith bill as well as a 900+ junk removal bill although there were no furniture left in the unit and the junk removal people only removed left over food from the fridge and the freezer!!!

I don't personally buy assignment real estate  but I am on countless mailing lists.

What about collecting the rent check and mailing it to your SDIRA custodian?