There are many pitfalls to watch out for in a tax sale and it will help you to somewhat understand the process before you attend an auction.

No conventional "go to the auction" plain vanilla type of stuff.

Just look at the number of foreclosures that happen which are sent to the courthouse steps fro auction.

Depending on the state in which the foreclosure occurred, the deed has been lost in foreclosure to the lender or whomever bought the property at the foreclosure auction, if there was one.

How to get the property before it goes to the auction?

It seems to me the banks are using agents to auction the properties to the highest bidder and disregard the contracted asking price, which to me is unethical .

I'll be attending wed auction prepared on 2 others , if they go through.

Once a property is foreclosed on the lien being foreclsoed on and all inferior liens are wiped out (the foreclosing entity will get either the high bid amount at the auction or if they are the high bidder they will get ownership of the property).

Other points of interest include how you praised a post stating insurance companies would profit more by allowing anti-selection, yet can't back that up with any fact-checking that you like to impose on others.

This is where you have the potential to make money on top of your auction, The fees that certain states/counties charge are minimal (at least the ones I prefer to do business with). 90% of the time I charge 300.00 for closings costs minus ebay fees for selling is 70 bucks, This leaves me with approx 230 dollars for me.