Based on my experience, the most efficient way to shield this is to have an insurance.

After looking at the information the agent gave me it looks to me like he was too close on his payments and when the property value rose dramatically from the cities investment he could no longer keep up with the payments and the taxes because the property taxes rose correspondingly over that same short period all at once on his properties.

Set Your Investing Criteria - and once you know your Goals, you can set your investing criteria to efficiently and effectively analyze deals and serve as bumpers on acquisitions. 

Through the daily grind of selling to SMBs and the experience of starting a sales team from scratch, I have strong experience in "systemizing" a lead funnel leading to constant improvements in sales efficiency at both the rep and team level (ask me about sales enablement tools, I love them!).

Assignee’s inspection period shall expire upon execution of this Assignment.

The price difference between the first and last batch of homes sold in a development will be waaaay greater than overall appreciation in that same time period, because they keep on doing this all the way through to that last sucker buying that last home for vastly more than the first home in the development would today sell for.

You have to understand what title from a tax sale means......it can mean tons of different things in different situations...redemption period, proper sale, proper notifications, etc.?

I would suggest using concrete where ever possible and plan to inspect the area where they have been coming through periodically.

One of the main reason the last recession took longer than it should to recover were people like you who saw success during the growth period and all of a sudden the recession hit with no contingency plan to keep your investment.

I also love all of the stories of their cash on cash return, which lasts for a short period of time before the house is shot up or tenants trash it.