Illinois

Deltatech said

The town that I grew up in the 80's (West Frankfort) passed a city ordinance and policy that allows the town itself to buy properties for 3 years or more of back taxes and resell the property. The council passed this about a decade ago and of course the property taxes shot up to 2.39%(double the national median)
Take a wild guess what happened over that decade, what the town looks like today.. and which families net worths have skyrocketed..
I'm eyeballing Oklahoma, Arkansas, Southern Missouri and Kentucky to permanently relocate and retire.

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Wow that's dirty. We can buy delinquent taxes as individuals in Iroquois county but even after you have done it for 3 years you still have to jump thru hoops to retitle it in your name. Some people do it just to get the profit from the delinquent taxpayer in interest. I bought a parcel after it already had went thru the process by one of these companies that buy delinquent taxes. It had originally been a one room schoolhouse on 2.3 acres with a 100 amp service and a septic. The structure was barely standing and was always zoned residential. There were several junk cars there and a school bus. After I bought it the county would not issue me a building permit...I had a realtor friend put it on the market after completely renovating the property and making it into a respectable lot. A tile digger that worked for the county bought it and they issued him a building permit.