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📜 Auctions, Tax Sales and Distressed Property

Tax-lien and tax-deed sales, foreclosures, and government surplus land. Every workup also includes the core checks.

Tax-lien and tax-deed sales Featured

Liens or properties sold by counties for unpaid taxes.

Who buys it: investors, bargain land buyers.

What Ridge checks

  • Lien vs. deed state
  • Redemption periods
  • Liens that survive the sale
  • Title insurance problems
  • The actual parcel on maps (many are slivers or landlocked)
  • Prior owner occupancy.

Where listings come from: county treasurer sites, Bid4Assets, GovEase, RealAuction, county auction lists.. Named as examples only, not endorsements.

Foreclosures and bank-owned (REO)

Homes or land taken back by lenders.

Who buys it: investors, bargain buyers.

What Ridge checks

  • Liens
  • Occupancy
  • As-is condition clues
  • Auction terms and deposits.

Where listings come from: Auction.com, Hubzu, Xome, HUD Home Store, bank and lender REO pages.. Named as examples only, not endorsements.

Government and surplus land

Land sold by federal, state or local agencies.

Who buys it: land investors, neighbors, cabin builders.

What Ridge checks

  • Sale terms
  • Deed restrictions
  • Access
  • Mineral rights reserved by the government.

Where listings come from: GSA Auctions, BLM land sales notices, state trust land offices, county surplus lists.. Named as examples only, not endorsements.

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