The tax lien strategist
by Vee
This podcast is meant to take the guess work out of tax lien investing. There are as many scenarios as there are people who say that they teach the strategies but there is a huge community of would be investors who feel that they’re still missing some steps. This podcast will take all of the guess work out of it and the episodes will certainly bring clarity. Happy investing
Episodes
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Ep. #224. TSU’s Third Ward State of Health 2026
A brilliant research work by TSU’s Institute of Urban Public Health and Housing Equity This work was done in partnership with residents, health experts, scientists, public policy workers, and working group members
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Ep. # 223- How to begin the redemption process in Texas
In other states, check your state law for up to date redemption instructions.
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Ep.#222. Property ownership records are a must to curtail property theft
Every blk heir and property owner needs this document recorded to their titles
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Ep.#221- Quitclaim vs Warranty deed Part 2
What do they each convey?
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Ep. #220- Quitclaim vs warranty deeds
Know the difference and what they convey
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Ep. #219. Email to Willie R Davis, Council member at large
Let’s see how he responds
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Ep218. Has Willie Davis devoted as much time to retaining ownership as he has to grant workshops?
We’ll see after we email him
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Ep.# 217. Is Willie R Davis , City Council At Large a Republican? I dont know
I’m tardy to this party
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Ep. #216. Helping owners redeem their properties so you can purchase from them
It’s a great strategy.
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Ep. . #215. Put your name on foreclosure auction’s interested to buy list
They’ll keep you updated on that particular property; whether someone won the bid or not and next steps
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Ep. #214. Why are there so many poor white people if the bootstraps theory really worked ?
They have a built in solution. Why don’t they use it? What’s wrong wit ‘em?
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Ep.#213. Asians sound foolish saying they’re racist
Not with those eyes
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Ep. #212 . Sites to search for your mineral rights
Check your ancestor’s names on these
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Ep. 211.Understanding Texas’s 1856 Heirship law is very useful as you search for your mineral rights
Other states have similar laws
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Ep. #210- Black people need to sue more
The people who violate your rights need to pay up
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Ep#209- How an heir can qualify for homestead exemption in Texas
Even without the deed being in their name
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Ep. #208- Property retention work is more than helping to locate forms
This is the education that you need to understand this work. Pay attention
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Ep#207. Lots of Mexicans want to appear racist and wear it like a badge of honor
They can be prejudiced, biased and anti black but never racist. Why ? They have no power . Listen to see what power truly is
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Ep#-206 Circumstances under which a deed needs to be created
An example of this is We would use your divorce decree that names you as the owner to create the document
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Ep #. 205 . A local black judge called pro se litigants “AI lawyers” in jest
Listen to why he was wrong
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Ep #204. State Rep Jolanda Jones tried to do da fool wit me Tuesday night
Let me tell yall what happened
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Ep. 203. Property theft happens on paper first, through the courts, before you even know it
Make it easy on yourselves by filing the proper documents to protect your properties
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Ep. #202 - How predatory investors exploit the County Recorder’s system
They use variations of names so that connected records dont appear together in an ordinary search
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Ep.201- 8 properties stolen. Part 2
HPD or Sheriff’s office has to investigate the case before turning it over to the District Attorney’s Office for prosecution.
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Ep. 200- listen to how a black man had 8 properties stolen by predatory thieves
Follow the steps involved in restoring those properties
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Ep.# 199- The Houston Land Bank has too much unchecked authority
They govern themselves and that’s dangerous
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Ep. # 198- What City Council persons should be required to see when heir property is taken
Although tax foreclosure is done on the county level, City Council does have a level of awareness of what’s going on
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Ep. # 197. Ladybird Deed vs Transfer On Death Deed
They both are established to bypass probate but the differences still warrant you hiring an attorney
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Ep. #196 This is how you’re dispossessed from your heir property after foreclosure judgement
What paperwork does City Council see before property is taken
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Ep #195. Why collecting data on black property theft is important
We must dismiss the narrative that black property loss is due solely to the failures of black people
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# 194. Listen to direction we’re headed with podcast
More training on how to invest in tax liens properties
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Ep. 193. The blk community has gotten used to being lied to by our government. Some just give up
From City Council members who we’re careful to put in office, to county and state level employees who we vote into office, black people are going to have to come together and rethink the why’s that we keep putting some people in office and back again
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Ep. #192- The so called City powers don’t really want to find solutions.
They want to continue to blame the communities and not deal with the economic stressors that cause it Black people of all people should understand this, but when your job tells you what to say, you have to say what they tell you to
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Ep.#191. Community land trusts of today aren’t the same model as the original
Don’t let these people tell you that the black couple who created the first land trust that protected property owners from theft meant for the model that’s used today to be compared to their model It’s not the same model
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Ep.#190- Violence in 3rd Ward and its connection to property dispossession
Tanisha Manning told me that the community meeting on violence in 3rd Ward was not the right time for the discussion on property retention as a solution. That statement will force the community to understand how out of touch people are about their properties being stolen. Property loss is still...
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Ep.#189- How to protect yourself in case the buyer is shopping your contract around town
This is the language you should put in the contract as a counter offer
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Ep. 188- Make sure you can spot if the purchaser plans to assign your property to an end buyer
Transparency is key. Don’t be in the dark. Get counsel about the language in the contract
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Ep#187- Stop signing sales contracts where a business name is listed as the purchaser
You don’t know if that person owns that company. Don’t let them rush you. Slow down and check them out first
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Ep#186– - Wills vs Ownership
A will is a set of instructions. That’s it. An executor is a nominee with no power until an estate is probated and the courts grant power to execute the deceased’s wishes
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Ep#185 Here is a list of things in gentrified areas that could fall under the label of housing work
If your help is truly about the community and not optics, then these are the things “ savior” groups should be doing. Most would rather blame the community for the problems and is why you don’t go to your own people and ask them to be better people and to stop creating these problems
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Ep#184 - A TSU student created an excellent work that brings awareness to environmental injustice
This injustice affects housing and is connected to COVID 19 and mold especially
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Ep.#183. Let’s explore the real reasons why there’s a Cuney Homes in the first place
Most of the “help” we see in Third Ward is performative unless… we face the real reasons there are issues in the first place
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Ep. #182- White saviorism and police culture work in tandem
They have a shared history of working together.
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Ep. #181. White saviors don’t make current residents present in future plans
Housing should be first priority
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Ep. # 180- White saviorism in Houston’s Third Ward and other gentrified areas
Come walk with me as we expose white saviorism in gentrified areas for what it really is; Black erasure
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Ep179. Courts don’t like deciding ownership when the law still allows reversal (redemption)
If an investor files a suit to clear title after a tax sale but before redemption, it’s usually a waste of time and money
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Ep. 178. Why you should probate an estate even if a home is the only asset
Heirship has to be established. Either enter wills for probate or establish heirship using affidavits
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Ep. 177. What triggers lawsuits against bonafide purchasers ?
Title companies often miss or accepts defects
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Ep. 176. How bonafide purchaser defenses can be big barriers to heirs’ reclaiming property
Challenging issues early matters
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Ep. 175. What’s a bonafide purchaser? See what the courts mean by BFP
Why would a person who closed at title company not know about prior claims on the property?
About this show
This podcast is meant to take the guess work out of tax lien investing. There are as many scenarios as there are people who say that they teach the strategies but there is a huge community of would be investors who feel that they’re still missing some steps. This podcast will take all of the guess work out of it and the episodes will certainly bring clarity. Happy investing
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Vee