County Directory

Ghost Property Finder By County

Use this directory to jump into real county tax-sale, tax-deed, foreclosure, and tax-defaulted-property pages instead of generic searches. Sale mechanics vary by state, so each card tells you what kind of public process that county uses.

Bot says: Start with counties that publish clean sale schedules, bidder rules, and parcel details.
Featured Counties
Florida

Orange County

Tax Deed

Orange County’s comptroller page is a solid Florida example because it explains the certificate-to-deed path and links directly into the live tax deed sale system.

  • Official source: Orange County Comptroller
  • Best for: tax deed sale research and bidder onboarding
  • Useful when you want a cleaner Florida deed workflow
Texas

Travis County

Foreclosure Sale

Texas does not run the same tax-deed flow as Florida. Travis County’s foreclosed-property page is a good official starting point for monthly tax foreclosure sale mechanics.

  • Official source: Travis County Tax Office
  • Best for: tax foreclosure sale rules and bidder process
  • Useful when you want Austin-area examples
California

Los Angeles County

Tax-Defaulted Auction

Los Angeles County publishes upcoming auction schedules for tax-defaulted property, which makes it useful for tracking real sale windows instead of piecing things together from scattered notices.

  • Official source: LA County Treasurer and Tax Collector
  • Best for: upcoming auction schedule and bidder timing
  • Useful when you want California tax-defaulted sale examples
Georgia

Fulton County

Tax Sale

Fulton County’s sheriff tax sale page gives you an official Georgia entry point. Georgia tax sales are deed-based but come with redemption rules that make upfront county research important.

  • Official source: Fulton County Sheriff
  • Best for: monthly sale rules and redemption-aware research
  • Useful when you want Atlanta-area tax sale examples
Arizona

Maricopa County

Tax-Deeded Land

Maricopa County’s tax-deeded land sales page is useful if you want an Arizona example where the county explains when parcels have already moved into tax-deeded land sale status.

  • Official source: Maricopa County
  • Best for: tax-deeded land sale info rather than generic search
  • Useful when you want Phoenix-area county examples
South Carolina

Greenville County

Tax Sale

Greenville County publishes a live tax sale list, which is helpful if you want to see actual parcels and amounts due instead of only reading procedural FAQs.

  • Official source: Greenville County
  • Best for: live tax sale listings and parcel review
  • Useful when you want a county with visible public sale inventory

Reality check: counties do not all use the same structure. Some run tax deed sales, some run tax foreclosure sales, some publish tax-defaulted auctions, and some push deeded parcels only after prior tax-sale steps. Use the official county page to confirm the exact flow before you spend money or start quiet-title work.