The county assessment has a market value of over $130k for the entire duplex, thats much too high with this poor upper side.

In my county if the owner misses 3 tax payments, then the property goes to tax sale.

They're smaller, tend to be on long, skinny lots (for a while most cities charged property tax on how many feet of street access you had, so you had a lot of long, skinny lots), and are in older areas of town.You can also find out the years properties were built by checking out the county records, or other means of snooping on one's neighbors- like http://www.city-data.com/, which is a good, free resource to get demographics of an area, and you can also go up and down streets (in my city at least) and find out what the tax records say- bedrooms, bathrooms, tax appraised value, all that good stuff.There's lots of places and tools to get that information, but that's one of the sites I use a lot.

The Cook County property taxes rose so much in the past 5 years, it just doesn't make sense for me to own any real estate there.

Code violations are a city/county issue... as Michael said, it's not likely going to affect you with the bank.

I gotta think a program like this is going to do some serious damage.Where I'm at, they might be able to grab 3 or 4 homes in one of the towns if they packaged the counties together, but that really wouldn't kill the rental market.

Anyone have a good one? Purchased 2nd rental in 2011 and a little nervouse about using my usual turbo tax.

l live in Montgomery County Maryland where the property prices and rents are on a higher side.

Hi everyone, I have been doing some research on finding a good title company in my area of Genesee County Mi.

I talk to the PM and usually get an idea on how they are - first impressions count. I