In which I responded with a screenshot from the county's website. 

For starters, you could use the common real estate websites like Zillow and Trulia.

I have sent a request through in your company website and hope to be able to do business in the near future.

He posted his fallout with OP on his website.

According to the tax records I found on the county website the taxes are delinquent and the owner currently has the property listed for 60K+ on MLS.

I have a propensity to take the risk if there is a greater reward and I am looking to generate returns for a longer-term time frame of 5 - 7 years.How would I go about making my investment decision to deploy this 30k purely as an investor?

If you are on this website, you're headed in the right direction.

If you have lower return targets than I do, then perhaps there are lots of properties that generates ok returns. 

I can't post a website link or phone number in this post but the number ends in 3081, you'll see it on their website.  

Why not buy the house youd like to live in with the land at a price point you can afford and then generate as much extra income as possible from the land.