Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Lea Uradu, J.D., is a Maryland state registered tax preparer, state-certified notary public, ...

PORT ST. LUCIE — The largest unpaid property-tax lien in St. Lucie County history was sold to a specialty firm at an auction last month, putting the future of a shuttered but storied local golf course ...

Most states are categorized as either tax lien or tax deed states. Real estate investors in tax lien states often purchase tax lien certificates to make a profit from their investments, because the ...

Tax lien investing allows you to purchase a tax lien certificate issued by the local government when a property owner has unpaid property taxes. A tax lien certificate includes unpaid taxes along with ...

With the federal tax filing deadline just weeks away, many taxpayers are now getting a clearer picture of what they owe — and for some, that number is much higher than expected. Between lingering ...

Nov. 30 is the deadline for making your first installment payment for Bexar County real estate taxes, which inspires today’s topic: tax liens. As a finance writer, all of real life is merely raw ...

Mike, a client of mine, walked into my office one day with a big stack of unopened envelopes from the IRS and a stressed frown creasing his face. “They did it. The IRS took all of my money out of my ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Robert Kelly is managing director of XTS Energy LLC, and has more than three decades of ...

Marriage, siblings, estates and family ownership can all lead to unwanted trouble from the IRS if property is owned jointly. Should one of those joint owners be indebted to the IRS, the tax agency can ...

Tax lien investing is a potentially high-yielding — but risky — real estate investment strategy. Investors cover an unpaid property tax bill upfront and are then responsible for collecting from the ...

Investing in tax liens is a strategy where investors pay delinquent property taxes owed by a homeowner in exchange for the right to collect repayment with interest. When property owners fail to pay ...