The title company is supposed to protect against this situation.  

Same with people go where you supposed to get cash to buy home.

@Christopher Telles,You mean we are supposed to make money at this.

I suppose if I built up my network that I would find investors interested in those areas. 

That way, if they get dinged by the city, they can just revert it back to what it's supposed to be and haven't overpaid. 

I suppose I could run a heating vent over to it or put head tape on the pipes as added insurance?

A lot of people forget or don't know they are supposed to do that.  

Yes, my question was supposed to be "Can someone tell me if the process is the same for Florida on mature tax liens as it is for Arizona?

Dana brings up what an economist might call agency costs here... and one issue many don't think about in HOA's is when you have someone else doing something for you (like a manager, even one with a group supposedly overseeing them ), which is common in HOA's, they may not always be working with the same level of interest as the actual person paying the bills--the owner (easy to spend others' money).

The idea was every time we sold a home to an investor we would ask them to donate $250 to this company and then they were supposed to plant a tree somewhere.