Start here: your first rep, one evening

Five steps. This is the only post you need to begin.

Understand the work in one paragraph.
When a property sells at tax sale for more than the debt owed, the extra money — surplus funds — sits with the county until the right person claims it. The work is records and process: find the case, verify the money, verify the person, move the claim correctly. If you want the why first, Foundations 1 in the classroom explains the mechanism in five short lessons — but you can start the rep below today.
See one worked example.
Foundations 2 in the classroom walks one real FCAR file end to end: find, verify, trace, contact, close. Fifteen minutes. This is what acceptable work looks like before you produce your own.
Do one exercise — Homework #1.
Pull one county surplus list. These are public records and free: search "[county] excess proceeds list" with site:.gov, or go to the clerk / tax collector site. Pick three entries. For each one, write three lines: the county, when the list was generated, and how you would verify the entry is still open.
Submit in the pinned Homework #1 thread.
Post your three lines per entry there, in the format shown in that thread. Never post claimant names or dollar amounts — counties and dates only.
We reply.
You will hear whether your rep meets the exercise criteria and exactly what to do next. One rep done properly beats ten half-read lessons.

House rules: no earnings claims from anyone, no pitching or DM solicitation, education not legal advice, post your work.

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Start here: your first rep, one evening