It depends on the type of tax lien if it will get wash.

Would have replaced some missing boards on the fence and power washed it and painted it to pop.

I built the deck, which I think might have been worth it in terms of what I would pay one of the skilled workers to do, but I found myself doing things cleaning gutters, power washing, landscaping tasks, mowing, cleaning roofs, general yard clean up, that I could have hired out and not spent my time doing. 

So I grab water from the neighbor to wash the fridge . 

Most specifically I have been checking out car washes . 

If you're current on your mortgage and financially solvent ( you mentioned you owned other homes with equity ), you may very well be denied for affordability or potentially be asked for contributions or a promissory note.

I've had very good experience with WASH for the past 6+ years.Always quick to repair machines.

Some may think they can controll some of the matters that may arise, and maybe they can influence someone, but it's not necessary as usually family issues will eventually wash out to close probate.Just from a marketing stand point, you need to identify the center of influence, that may or may not be the executor of an estate, siblings may have odd relationships.

So my mortgage payment on that would be a wash from the rent that I would be getting.

Well, it's not a complete wash, because of the two factors I mentioned: time value of money and possibly rate arbitrage.