A tax deed is a legal document that allows a city or county to transfer ownership of a property that has gone into tax foreclosure. This means the homeowner has failed to pay property taxes and the ...

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Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. A tax lien foreclosure is the sale of a property resulting from the property owner's failure ...