Decide if you are willing to get a fixer upper, and determine if each property is an area you'd be willing to live in.If your wife is willing, pool credit with her to qualify for a bigger loan (yes they need her SSN for that).  

-How do you determine the value of each lot?  

And proper service of the notice of foreclosure will be required to extinguish any junior position liens.Then you have the case of IRS liens.

Hello All,I have never bought an property ever but I am determined to by something within the next 2 months.

And, would forming a single-member LLC to hold title to these properties (for liability reasons) make the IRS more likely to consider me a dealer?

Brian has finger in a ton of different pies and is looking for the right margins to determine whether it's a deal. 

It has been a challenge to determine which clients we would like to cater to.

I assume you can answer your question by stating why you are determined to use your own title company.

I was wondering if anybody on the forum could provide some insight into what goes into determining if one should lease out a home or sell.

if your talking about CA tax sale.. yes tax deed state all is wiped out except IRS... and there is no right of redemption.