Baltimore Real Estate Investing Blog

Tweet The Other Foreclosure Menace Mortgage Paid Off, Woman Loses Home — Over a Small Water Bill By Fred Schulte, Ben Protess and Lagan Sebert Huffington Post Investigative Fund A version of this story appeared in The Baltimore Sun. One raw day in early February, Vicki Valentine stood by helplessly as real estate investors snatched […]

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Tweet Anne Arundel County MD tax sale will be held online June 8, 2010.  Their website for the Tax Auction is AAcountyTaxSale.com.  The site  currently lists 2876 properties for their tax sale.  This is about 1/2 the number in the Prince  Georges county tax sale and about 1/10 the number of tax liens is the […]

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Tweet Prince Georges County MD tax sale will be held online May 10, 2010.  Their website for the Tax Auction is PrinceGeorgesCountyTaxSale.com.  The site  currently lists 5760 properties for their tax sale.  The site also has all the information you need to bid including video tutorial. Tax Sale Registration Deadline If you want to bid […]

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Tweet The Charles County Md tax sale will be held May 18, 2010.  Currently they list 837 properties.  Their auction for tax lien certificates will be conducted as an online auction.  Bids may be submitted starting Thursday May 13th and the Auction will end on Tuesday May 18. Their website is www.charlescountytaxsale.com.  Their tax lien […]

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Tweet Update – see 2011 Howard County Tax Sale Howard County has announced the date of the 2010 tax sale.  The date will be May 24th 2010. Howard County traditionally has run their tax sale as a live auction and it appears that this year will be no different. A tax auction is for a […]

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Tweet Here is a video from WBAL channel 11 news.   The city to sell properties behind on taxes.  ( It’s only about 3 min long, including the commercial) I was expecting it to be another piece bashing investors and tax lien buyers.  It was actually more about the size of the tax sale list in […]

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Tweet The Daily Record is reporting that Harvey Nusbaum will plead Guilty to tax lien auction bid rigging on February 12, 2010. His partner Jack Stollof pleaded guilty in January and will be sentenced March 25.  Steven Berman pleaded guilty in 2008 and paid a $750,000 fine in the same investigation.

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Tweet Update – click here for 2011 Baltimore City Tax Sale Informnation Baltimore has announced the dates for the 2010 tax lien certificate auction. Monday February 1, 2010: Last day for homeowners to pay taxes with a personal check. Homeowners  Help for homes going into tax sale. Wednesday March 17, 2010: Listing of 2010 tax […]

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Tweet Back in July of 2008, I reported that Steve Berman had pleaded guilty to price fixing at Maryland tax lien auctions.  Others were implicated at the time.  Many of us active in local tax lien sales have been waiting for the other shoe to drop. Jack Stollof has pleaded guilty to fixing bids at […]

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Tweet I am already getting a lot of hits to my site for people searching for information on the 2010 MD tax sales.  To get more information about tax sales and how to participate, see my past posts on tax sale investing.  More on tax sales here. Watch my site for updates.  I’ll let you […]

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Tweet The Baltimore City Tax Sale was held May 18, 2009.  A total of 8569 liens were sold with a total face value of $20.8million. There were 172 bidders. 91 bidders had winning bids. There were a total of 33,426 bids meaning about four times as many bids a liens awarded. If you compare that […]

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Tweet I will get a post up shortly with the Baltimore City tax sale results. If you would like to share your experiences in the tax sale click the title heading and leave a comment. Several of you have left comments already – thank you. I will respond when I get a chance, still lots […]

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Tweet Tax Lien Help This blog is focused on real estate investing.  I have written a lot about tax liens and the tax sale process from an investor’s point of view, however I have gotten several questions from homeowners and tenants that are wondering what they should do.  So here is the tax sale process […]

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Tweet Baltimore County Tax Sale The Baltimore County tax sale will be held Wednesday June 3, 2009, at the County Council Chambers, 400 Washington Ave,  Room 205, Towson, Maryland at 9 a.m.  You must pre-register for the sale by May 29 at 4:30 p.m.  Registration is free. More information and the property list are available a the […]

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Tweet Take Massive action Something my friend Pete Gardini often says is to take massive action. You are not going to be successful by sitting around doing nothing.  Goals are great, thinking and planing are important, research is necessary, and going to seminars and reading real estate books ( and my blog 🙂 ) are […]

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