Real-estate distress investing · 29 Texas counties

Disciplined returns from property-tax distress.

Tara Wealth pairs a data-driven sourcing engine with on-the-ground execution to turn tax-delinquent and county-held parcels into a transparent, repeatable real-estate strategy — with homeowner outcomes treated as a first-class concern, not an afterthought.

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The problem

Property-tax distress is large, painful, and hard to source.

Every year, thousands of parcels fall into tax delinquency. Behind the data are homeowners in hardship and a long tail of distressed, vacant, and county-held lots. The opportunity is real — but the data is fragmented across county rolls, appraisal districts, and court records, and sourcing it at scale is slow, manual, and error-prone.

Fragmented data

Tax rolls, CAD valuations, flood and lot-quality layers, and court filings live in separate systems with inconsistent formats.

Manual sourcing

Most investors screen by hand. It doesn't scale, and it misses the screens that separate a real lot from a data artifact.

Homeowner stakes

Delinquency often signals genuine hardship. A responsible strategy has to distinguish homeowners from acquisition targets.

Our approach

A gated sourcing engine, not a spreadsheet.

Tara Wealth ingests a county's tax roll and appraisal data, applies validation and spatial screens, and produces a decision-ready target list — every parcel traceable back to source. The same engine separates two lanes so the strategy stays responsible and focused.

Lane A · Homeowner

Homeowner assistance

Owner-occupied, hardship, and deferral-eligible parcels are screened out of acquisition and handled as a separate, assistance-oriented lane.

Lane B · Acquisition

Disciplined acquisition

CAD-confirmed vacant lots and county-held (struck-off) inventory, screened for flood and lot quality, priced conservatively, and routed through human review before any capital decision.

Pipeline stages run input-validation and schema-drift checks, FEMA flood and lot-quality screens, conservative pricing, and a reconciliation gate — so no parcel is double-counted and every figure reconciles to a single source. Full methodology is in the investor materials.

The opportunity · 29 Texas counties

From ~7.0M parcels to a screened, investible set.

The engine screens 29 Texas counties on current appraisal rolls, narrowing millions of parcels to a validated set of low-value vacant land — every figure traceable to a single canonical source:

461,630 vacant lots (appraisal state code C1)

289,263 pass the affordability screen

246,056 investible — after flood & lot-quality screens

23,024

struck-off (taxing-unit-held) lots — an owner-scan upper bound, not purchasable inventory

$22,880

validated-pool median market value — cited as a conservative floor

29 / 30

target counties screened (only Fort Bend's 2024 roll excluded; Brazoria included with 2025-GIS owners)

Travis County (Austin) is the proven worked example — the full lifecycle from delinquency to struck-off resale, modeled end to end. Detailed unit economics, ranges, assumptions, and risk gates are in the password-protected investor deck. Counts trace to the program's canonical pipeline output.

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Team

Founder-led, owner-operated.

CJ Zhao

Founder. Background in data, finance, and real-estate analytics; builds the sourcing engine and leads strategy and capital.

Hugh

Co-owner. Partners on operations and finance. Tara Wealth LLC is held jointly.

Operating track record and references available to investors under NDA.

Contact

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