Tax liens as you get farther out east are more complicated than West coast tax liens that are fairly easy to understand and cut and dry.my sense of this is you have the right to pay the tax's and add it to your note balance.. just like if they did not pay insurance..I suspect you do have a Alienation clause in your mortgage as its pretty standard verbiage in most.but you have multiple events of default going on here.. so you can start at anytime I would thinklastly I think at least in many east coast states or counties to clear title they need a court action.. and at that time you would also be notified and be able as the lender to cure.. 

Any shady GC that is good at being a crook will make you feel 90%+ comfortable but there will be this little spidy sense that makes you feel something is off, trust that.

I didn't even realize that but it makes sense, will be checking this out with my next call. 

About to make an offer of 750k in the next couple of days if you think it makes sense.

If it makes sense move to your target price.

You can slow down or stop investing, which isn't a bad strategy in the short term if you don't see deals that make sense for you.

I have been pondering if investing out of state makes more sense.

Since you were willing to deal with an ugly driveway, my sense is that you prefer not to take on anything super costly.

With that being said... most of the houses I’m analyzing just aren’t making sense from a numbers perspective and a majority of that is because I’m looking on the MLS.

Good idea for a number of reasons:1 - This won't be a refi in the sense it will have a lien on the property (mortgage).