Until I receive better return contact, I will continue to look for deals the old fashioned way and will continue to report robo-dialers as SPAM to my provider and have their numbers blocked.

Even if there's a small chance of getting caught, I'm not going to risk 18 months in the clink plus big fines and having my loan called plus ruining my creditworthiness just for a lower rate personally, but I'm not a gambling man. 

I got 750 bogus spam seller leads from my website in the last couple hours and they keep coming?

You hopefully won't lose much in that gamble but that is what all tax liens are, a gamble.

He really doesn't like you and has been spamming a bunch of posts with this message. 

It's a gamble.

But its not unlike gambling in a casino.  

So many others "settle" and take the deal in hopes for higher sales prices in time, they are literally gambling on continued appreciation to take the deal down.

I'm a bit weary of choosing a property that already has a tenant in place (section 8 tenant or not), because it always feels like a bit of a gamble.

Are you willing to gamble the $2,500 that your going to find a buyer?