I'm pretty excited to be a part of this website. 

I've used a third party site that indicates there are many tax sales/auctions (is there a difference) happening at several different locations throughout the county; anyone know how to consolidate this disparate locations through a single service (website?

One place you can look is on the banks' websites.

Hello, Everyone,I ran across this Real estate website, and wanted to learn about real estate purchasing, and after I realized that the seminar was a waste of my time.

You'll have to start loading your property on all of the available websites:  vrbo, airbnb, tripadvisor, homeaway, villarentals, etc.  

I'm not even considering bidding yet, because I have concerns about hidden expenses (past due: hoa fee's, taxes, liens, etc)I see lots of people saying to search the local county records, but perhaps my local county website is just "different".  

Research more on this website about apartments, and get your numbers down before making that offer.

Be sure to check out the forums, the blogs, podcasts as well as other parts of this amazing website and like minded community.

The website is www.carreia.com.

Not sure if you're looking in Arlington, but they have lots of information on this on the county building website.