I buy raw land at county tax auctions and resell it on seller-financed terms. Around 90 of the 100+ parcels I've acquired have sold that way, and I did it all alongside a full-time job. This is the where and when, county by county, in twelve states. Part-time was my schedule, not the ceiling. These twelve states hold sales across more than 875 counties, and something is selling every single month whether you show up or not.
The two places in America where land still sells for double digits, and exactly how each one works. No cost, no video, just the chapter.
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Buying Land At Tax Auction, Part-Time
Parcels Acquired
Resold On Seller-Financed Terms
Researched County By County
Twelve states, and what you genuinely own the moment you win each one. A Michigan deed kills redemption before the auction. A Mississippi win is a receipt the owner can redeem for two years. Same word, different asset.
GovEase, Bid4Assets, RealAuction, Zeus, Grant Street, Ingenuity, plus the counties that still sell on the courthouse steps. Which platform runs which county, and why that changes from year to year.
Every state that has run a tax system long enough built a fixed-price back door for the parcels nobody bid on. Alabama's state inventory. Florida's Lands Available lists. Mississippi's application pricing. Texas resales with no minimum bid at all.
Registration windows, deposits, payment deadlines measured in hours, and the eligibility paperwork that disqualifies more first-time bidders in Texas than anything else.
GIS, plat maps, the 5-point GPS corner system, and legal access. Plus the two traps that cost beginners most: no-access desert lots, and parcels that turn out to be a mineral interest with no surface at all.
Why seller-financing beats a cash listing, with real numbers from real deals: what I paid, what I sold for, and on what terms.
The Getting Started Guide, $79 once. Which states, which instruments, which platforms, and how to evaluate a parcel you will never stand on.
The Auction Calendar, $24/month or $199/year. County-by-county sale months and links to each list as it posts. Maintained by hand, updated monthly.
When you're collecting payments from buyers, DeedStack™ runs the back office: contracts, payment collection, and a buyer portal.
It's sold by someone who actually does it. Six years buying raw land at county tax auctions and reselling it on terms, all while working a full-time job. Not a course about a business. Notes from one.
The research is county-level, not state-level. Twelve states worked county by county from primary sources: statutes, county treasurers and state agencies. Every unverified item is labelled as unverified.
It covers the channels nobody markets. Most guides stop at the auction. The money in land is in what happens to the parcels nobody bid on, and those channels are documented state by state.
It ends where the software begins. Buying the parcel is half of it. Collecting payments for the next four years is the other half, and that's a system, not a spreadsheet.
"Your First Parcel Under $500" covers the two cheapest legitimate entry points in the country and walks one parcel from catalog to deed. If it's useful, the full guide is $79.
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