An operator built this because the information was a mess

I'll be straight with you: I'm not a tax-lien guru, and I'm not going to sell you my track record. My background is in program and project delivery — my job is taking messy, ambiguous problems and turning them into systems that actually hold up under scrutiny.

When I started looking into tax-sale investing, the mess jumped out at me. The space is full of five-thousand-dollar courses, unsourced blog posts, and sites that get the law flat wrong — calling Florida a tax-deed state when it sells lien certificates first, or describing Texas like it pays tiered lien interest when it's a redeemable-deed state with a flat statutory premium. Whole articles repeat each other's errors. For someone about to risk real money, that's not a small problem. It bothered me the way a bad specification bothers me at work.

So I did the thing I actually know how to do. I built a rigorous, sourced system for it: every U.S. state plus DC, each scored on how its tax sales really work, every rate and redemption rule traced back to the primary statute — and corrections to the things the incumbents get wrong. Then a live auction tracker on top, because knowing the rules isn't much use if you don't know when and where the sales actually happen.

That's the whole pitch. I'm not offering you my wins. I'm offering you the most accurate, honest, checkable tax-sale data I could build — the thing I would have wanted in front of me before I risked a dollar.

How the data on this site is sourced

Every state guide cites the actual statute or official government source for its rate, redemption period, and auction rules — you'll find the citation and a link to the primary source on the page. Where we're not fully confident in a detail, the page says so explicitly rather than guessing. The full underlying dataset is public and downloadable on our dataset page, so you can verify it yourself rather than take our word for it. When we find that a county isn't actually worth a retail investor's time — because it sells its liens in bulk to one institution, or buys them back itself — we say that too.

A note on our guides

Our educational guides and stories are written in a friendly first-person narrator voice (you'll see the name “Marcus”) to make dense statutory material approachable. Those narrated scenarios are illustrative teaching examples, not the personal trading history of any one individual. The company itself is founded and run by me, Ayoola Jegede. The data, always, is the real thing — sourced and checkable.

What TaxLienSimple is, and isn't

TaxLienSimple is a research reference and a tracking tool, not a financial advisor. We don't sell certificates, manage money, or promise a return. Tax-sale investing carries real risk — redemption isn't guaranteed on any particular schedule, statutory maximum rates are not what you actually earn after bidding and costs, and state rules change. Always verify current rules against the official source before you bid, and treat everything here as a starting point for your own research, not a substitute for it.