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Paul is with us in Cincinnati to start this hour. Hi, Paul. How are you?

Hey, Dave, doing better than I deserve. How are you? Just the same, sir. What's up?

Okay, so about five years ago, my aunt convinced my 92-year-old grandmother to change her will

so that only she would inherit the property that my grandma owns on a lakefront in Florida when she passes.

My grandma's 97 now, and her health is not very good.

I was wondering if it would be wise to try to acquire the property by means of a property

tax lien after my aunt inherits it and she inevitably fails to pay the taxes on it.

Okay.

So your aunt did talk to your grandmother into doing something where the rest of the family got cut out.

Is that what you're angry about?

Am I getting this right?

That's right.

Okay.

All right.

Well, I don't know Florida law, but that's probably not going to work. And sometimes you hear these guys,

and you may have seen this, that may have been what prompted your idea, these guys in the

real estate get rich quick world, and they say, go buy tax liens, and you can just, you know,

you buy people's back tax position, and then you become the owner of the

property, and it's just easy. You can just do it all. Listen, I've done it like six times, like when I

used to do real estate for a living, and I was doing foreclosures for a living, never ended up with a single

property because most states, including the one I'm in, have a right of redemption that is one year or two years. So let me give you an example.

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