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Billion Dollar Typo — Tax Sales Support

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I came across an interesting news article that I wanted to share with everyone. I’ll place a link below for those who would like to check it out. The article was about problems that had arisen for a county when a property was accidentally valued at nearly a billion dollars by the county assessor! The property is located in Wasatch County, Utah. The single family home in question has a market value of approximately $300k, but was mistakenly valued at more than $987 million dollars. County officials aren’t sure exactly how it happened, but believe it might have been the result of a phone getting dropped on a keyboard. The bigger problem for the county was that budgets were approved, and property taxes were issued. The $987 million dollars wasn’t real, but the county included it when they set the tax rate for the year. This resulted in property owners across the county paying slightly less than they would have paid. Aside from the issues this has caused, this story provides an interesti...

About Tax Sale Support LLC & Founders

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TaxSaleSupport   is a tax sale training website that is owned and operated by Tax Sale Support LLC. The website is used for membership, training, and downloading tax sale lists. Tax Sale Support LLC training programs were founded by Stephen Swenson and Shade Ferre in 2007. If you are new to the program, a brief history of the company is very helpful. Brief History & Purpose: Steve and Shade are business partners with a long history together. The two have been best friends since the first grade and grew up together in Cedar Hills, Utah throughout the 1980's and 1990's. In 1999, Stephen was introduced to tax liens and tax deeds for the first time. Naturally, he got Shade interested too. By 2003, the two were attending tax sales and purchasing investments. But more importantly, they were learning. It was 2005 when Steve and Shade first had the idea of creating a tax sale training program. They set out to create the best training program available. Their unique perspective and ...