most counties the lien records can be found at your assessor's office or the county clerk or recorder.

If you visited that courthouse and went to the property tax assessor's or collector's office, they could describe in detail exactly how you can go about bidding on tax certificates. 

At least out west the FBI and the US AG's office has been very active the last few years prosecuting "collusion" on the courthouse steps.

Her and her husband had the same response from many sales offices.

Tell Lars that Chris Mason sent you.http://larsghanssoncpa.com/ When his office and mine get conspiratorial with the goal of boosing purchasing power of a self employed person a tax filing or two out because someone's purchasing power is artificially constrained by stupid mortgage guidelines, amazing things happen.

I know some landlord report their home as home office to get partial deduction and depreciation of their primary residency.

BP Team,  Turns out the county website had the property listed only as commercial (rezoned in 1984), so I hurried down to the Regional Building Zoning office, and they showed me it is actually zoned "OR", for "Office/Residential".  

Office/warehouse.

Going forward, I plan to use Brian more as he is a small 2 man office, and did a great job on 2 closings I had.My CPA is in Ohio, and is awesome...but he is in Ohio.Curtis

But we have came across our first road block.This is what is happening 12/3/15 we hired an architect that was referred to us by a real estate agent (which we do not know or have ever done business with, we got his number from a sign realtors put up on properties he sells acre lots and offers to design your custom home as well, his sign was up in the community where we bought our acre) so we called him and he told us of the architect he works with and who has done the design for the majority of the homes there, well they are beautiful homes so we called him up and met with him on 12/3/15 at his home office.