I'll send to buyer's over the last 12 months but instead of spending the time on the Auditor's Site, use a data scrapper to mine the data for you.

Most County auditor websites will have tax information regarding if the account is current.

Maybe its still in limbo and the county auditors site hasn't been updated?

Be ready with your knowledge of that property from what you found on the auditor's website -- from looking at pictures and reading the property information. 

The best thing I've found is going on the county auditors page and searching the street your potential property is located on as well as a few nearby and identifying sales in the past 6 months.

Then record these legal  documents with your county recorder, treasurer/assessor, and auditor so everyone knows what is going on.

However Banks have state auditors to answer to and 20% down is required or if you have other assets to pledge, they might lend that 20% as well if you cross collateralize on another property.

5) The analysis is based on Zillow recently sold searches for 2/1 and evaluation of county auditor sales in past 5 years of 2/1's in the neighborhood.

One of the questions an auditor will ask is "what is the primary purpose of this trip?"  

Turns out, my county auditor site has nifty data mining tools!