So he would essentially be paying me a finder's fee for connecting him with a seller of some off market properties.

Meet-up this Thursday in U-district if you have not heard, wish I could make it.If I could travel back in time, I would tell myself to be much pickier in choosing properties to buy and hold.  

(by neighborhood I mean one named area)  I am farming a single school district (Although, we have begun to expand into other areas.) in a suburb.  

Honestly, there are a LOT of people here on BP that have served as essential connections and partners whom guided me through my first few deals.

The offering docs fully disclose all of the risks and essentially say you can lose all of your money, so there is no bait and switch based on the documents I have prepared for our offerings.Sometimes deals don't go the way we want.  

I would plan to stay local, probably limiting my movement to the current school district I live in so my kids wouldn't be school hopping while all this is going on over the next 4, 5, 6 years or however long it takes to run its course.  

Supply/Demand/Price is essential to know.Adrian

If you're going to ask a specific amount because of what you'll have in to it, make sure you've got the appraiser, mortgage broker, title company and anyone else essential to the deal on your side.

They need to fund their essential services (fire, police, schools, etc) and do not want to be in the collections business.- The funds used to purchase a lien can come from a Roth IRA because those accounts allow for discretionary investment, and purchasing a lien is considered an investment.Is it true that this is a very safe investment because you are guaranteed to, at the very least, get back what you put in... very likely to get a substantial return through the accrued tax debt interest... and also possibly becoming the owner of the property simply by being the lien holder for a number of years.It looks like, from what I was told, this kind of investment is more about money than property.

What I've always gone with is that the renter has essentially the same right to privacy as if he owned it.