US property you can buy today, without an auction
Over-the-counter tax deeds, tax-forfeited land and land bank inventory — scraped straight from state and county sources every morning. And we answer what the county file can't: is it in a floodplain, can you drive to it, and can you buy the lot next door.
Everything you need before you ring the county
This is a single row opened up. The price, the government's own value, the flood zone, whether there is a road, how many other forfeited parcels sit next door, who to call and what to ask them. No other tax-deed list answers the last four.
And where we don't know something, it says so instead of guessing — which is the only reason the rest of the numbers are worth anything.
A 90% discount is usually not a price
Every other tax-deed list shows you a percentage and lets you assume someone will sell at it. Most of the time nobody has offered you anything.
Mississippi publishes a statutory floor — the accumulated taxes owed, which can literally be $4. The state sets the real number and can demand an appraisal. That single distinction is the difference between a list you can act on and a list that wastes your week.
We label every single row. You never spend a phone call on a number that was never real.
And that is only the discount lie
Of the parcels we have checked against FEMA and the Census road layer so far, — carry a defect that nothing in the county's own file mentions — a high-risk flood zone, the 500-year band, or no public road within 60 metres. Cheap land is usually cheap for a reason. We tell you which reason.
A screening tool with the judgement calls already made
Public records, normalised every morning, with the traps marked before you spend a dollar.
The call list
Every parcel where a government body publishes both a market value and a quotable price — grouped by county, with the phone number and email read out of that county's own document, and the date the list was last updated. Ring, ask five questions, make an offer.
The market record
We log what happens to the list, every day. How long a parcel has been sitting, how fast a county's inventory actually moves, and what has left. Nobody can copy this without also having recorded it for a year — and it gets more useful every month you stay.
Daily change feed & email
New listings, price cuts and parcels that vanished, computed fresh every morning against yesterday's run — and emailed to you filtered to the states, prices and discounts you chose. Never a "nothing happened" email.
Flood risk, before you buy
Every mapped parcel is checked against FEMA's National Flood Hazard Layer — the map insurers actually price from. On a $1,200 lot, a Special Flood Hazard Area means a premium that can exceed the purchase price every year. Where FEMA hasn't mapped an area we say so, rather than calling it safe.
The landlocked check
We query US Census road centrelines around each parcel. No public road within 60 metres is the single most common reason very cheap rural land is cheap — you can't build on it, finance it or resell it. No tax roll tells you. We flag it as check access, never as proof, and tell you what to ask.
Buy the block
We keep the coordinates, so we can show you where forfeited parcels sit next to each other — runs of three, ten, twenty adjoining lots. Adjoining land is worth more than the sum of its parts, and a land bank would rather clear five at once. Nobody else surfaces this, because nobody else keeps the map.
Risk flags on every deal
Fractional "undivided interest" you could never control. Lake subdivisions with POA dues. Bundled parcels. Structures bought sight unseen. Flagged before you spend a dollar, not after.
Value-gap ranking
Sorted by dollars, not percentage — because a $4 floor on a $20k lot ranks above a $105k price on a $619k building if you sort by percent, and that is exactly backwards.
A profit model you control
ARV, rehab, holding, selling costs and the 70% rule — with every assumption exposed and editable. No tax list publishes an ARV, so we never pretend one is a fact.
Neighbourhood intelligence
Open any property and see the ZIP's median income, home value, median rent, vacancy rate, poverty rate and owner-occupancy — straight from the US Census. Plus a gross-yield figure on habitable buildings, and a sanity check of the county's value against the neighbourhood median.
A deal pipeline that travels
Stage, target price, next-action date and your own notes on every parcel you chase — stored against your account, not your browser. Open it on another computer and your work is there.
CSV export
Export any view or your whole pipeline and take it to your title company or your attorney. We never sell, share or broker anything — there is no other side to this business.
Where the inventory comes from
Seven states and 160+ counties, scraped from the agency that actually sells the property — never from a reseller. Plus every house and farm the federal government itself has for sale.
| Source | What it is | Publishes a market value? |
|---|---|---|
| MSSecretary of State | Statewide tax-forfeited inventory | Yes — plus address, acreage, blighted flag |
| TXStruck-off resale lists | Failed auction, now private sale by bid form | Yes — court-appraised value beside the minimum bid |
| MOLand Bank of Kansas City | Buy-it-now by offer | Yes — priced at 2/3 of market value by policy |
| ALDept. of Revenue | State-held certificates, any business day | No — price only, median $196 |
| PADelaware Co. repository | Free and clear of liens, $1,000 flat | No — but every row has a street address |
| NYAlbany County Land Bank | Buy by application, from $600 | No — price only, with addresses |
| TNShelby County Land Bank | Buy by application any business day, from under $100 | Assessed value only — Tennessee assesses at 25% of appraised, so it is a floor |
| MTCounty-held lien assignments | No auction at all — the treasurer assigns to whoever pays | No — the figure is the lien, with the full legal description and geocode |
| VACourt-ordered tax sales (TACS) | Judicial auction, advertised then dated | No price published — we link the information packet |
| USHUD Home Store & USDA resales | Houses and farms the federal government owns, nationwide | Yes — an appraised list price, with beds, baths, size and coordinates |
One product, two ways to pay
No free tier. The live numbers at the top of this page are the proof — you can check them against the agencies yourself before you pay us anything.
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- The call list — quotable deals + contacts
- Top deals ranked by dollar value gap
- Daily change feed and morning email
- Flood zone + road access on every mapped parcel
- Buy the block — adjoining-parcel assembly finder
- The market record — age and county turnover
- Deal pipeline that follows your account
- 90% club with the floor/quote split
- Risk flags and CSV export
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The questions worth asking first
Is this really 90% off? Can I buy a house for $500?
Sometimes, genuinely — but far less often than the headline numbers suggest, and that is the whole reason this exists. A 90% discount on a liveable home is not a market condition; it is a legal artifact of tax-forfeiture programmes, and it almost always carries a catch: no insurable title, no road access, an open redemption window, or a teardown. The honest sweet spot in this data is 60–80% off with a quoted price. We show you exactly which rows those are.
Are prices crashing? I keep hearing foreclosures are exploding.
Distress is genuinely rising — US foreclosure filings were up 21% in the first half of 2026 and completed repossessions up 42% year-on-year. But ATTOM, whose data that is, describes it as the market returning to typical patterns after years of unusually low activity, not a 2008 repeat. More inventory is coming. A price collapse is not. We would rather tell you that than sell you a panic.
Do you guarantee these properties are available?
No, and nobody honestly can. County lists lag reality by days to weeks — that is precisely why the first of our five questions is "is it still available?". We show you when each source list was last updated, we flag any source that was unreachable on the last run, and we record how long each parcel has been listed, so you always know how fresh the number is.
Is this investment advice?
No. It is a screening tool built from public records, and its author is not a licensed advisor. Verify every number against the county before committing money, and use an attorney or a tax-deed-friendly title company for the title work.
Do you use Zillow data — Zestimate, Rent Zestimate?
No, and we won't. Zillow retired its public API, the Zestimate is proprietary, and scraping it breaks
their terms. Instead we use the US Census American Community Survey — median household income, median
home value, median gross rent, vacancy, poverty and owner-occupancy by ZIP. It's official, it's free, it's
publishable, and for judging an area it's the data those models are calibrated against anyway.
What we deliberately do not publish is a "safety score". No free, address-level crime data
exists in the US, so any such score would be invented. Vacancy and owner-occupancy are the honest proxies,
and we show you the actual numbers instead of a rating.
Where does the flood and road data come from, and how far do you trust it?
Flood zones come from FEMA's National Flood Hazard Layer and roads from US Census TIGER centrelines — both free, federal and authoritative. We query them at each parcel's centroid, which is the honest limit: a centroid is not a survey, so a long or irregular lot can straddle a zone boundary. Treat it as the screen that tells you whether to order one. Two things we deliberately don't do: where FEMA has never mapped an area we say unmapped rather than implying low risk, and where TIGER shows no road we say check access rather than landlocked, because TIGER omits some private drives.
What happens when I cancel?
You keep full access until the end of the period you've already paid for, then it simply stops. Two clicks in the billing portal, no email required, no retention call, no winback sequence.
Why these states?
Because those are the ones publishing a real price — and where possible a value — in a form a daily automated job can read. The two vendors who run most US foreclosure and tax auctions block automation outright. We document exactly what is blocked and why inside the app, rather than implying nationwide coverage we do not have.
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