Thus the lack of experience begins to show along with lack of maturity when things go bad, they fail to respond to people and ignore them, with some not even finding out a property was lost at foreclosure.

What this lender  failed to understand was the taxes that showed as delinquent were from the previous parent parcel tax ID that no longer existed.  

So many people pass on great deals all of the time because they are scared to fail. 

Those who fail to remember and learn from history, are doomed to suffer it's repeat....  

The way tax liens work, the certificate holder gets to exercise their right under law to take ownership of the property (get the deed) when the redemption period expires and the owner fails to respond/ repay once the deed process has been concluded.

I’d bet over 99% of people who learn about it in his system fail at it and It costs $1000 or more to get started.

Lastly a Heloc will "Never" act as an asset or PITI reserve so if you fail to have sufficient funds required in reserves (Cash) then your will not buy multiple investment rentals.

(b) If a person offering to redeem fails or refuses to nominate a referee as provided in subsection (a) of this section, he or she must pay the value put upon the improvements by the then holder of the legal title.

If Property B fails, it can impact Property A and the whole house of cards comes tumbling down.It's also hard to make the numbers work.

They failed you.The solution is to not use real estate agents in the future.