This property is worth maybe ~$20-30k on the market.Normally I would just let this thing sit for a few years and go to tax auction (this county is very slow to foreclose), but at the same time don't want some cheeky heir or squatter to move a junkyard onto the property - and at the same time could use the frontage for signage.I'm considering finding one of the heirs and acquiring their stake in the property so I can at least have some level of control, granted limited, of what happens until it goes to auction. 

Received the following today from a Foreclosure Listing Service in Texas that monitors the major counties in the DFW, Austin & San Antonio areas of Texas.Almost every county we cover showed an increase in postings for the first auction of 2021.

The property has been vacant for years and was sold at an auction to recover outstanding property tax debt.Recently, someone else has filed a quitclaim deed on the property, but he doesn’t really know what to do because everything seems to be a mess.

The house will be auctioned 1/12/2021.

Can you imagine if an adult child called me three weeks after their parent passed, only to hear that I had claimed the property abandoned and auctioned everything off?

This house was bought through an auction.

The auditor would not reduce the value to match the foreclosure auction's "market value" (it was in bad shape when I got it) and its one of my higher-taxed SFHs still. 

I was driving for dollars in my hometown and there is this foreclosure that has been foreclosed for a couple of years now and I am just curious if there is any way I can possibly get the property without it going to auction?

Since that time, I always heard there are no good deals on the MLS so I moved towards finding deals in county foreclosures through auction.

Since that time, I always heard there are no good deals on the MLS so I moved towards finding deals in county foreclosures through auction.