Playbooks

Playbooks and guides

Step-by-step roadmaps with a flowchart: the steps we'd take, the tools, the legal path, and an honest picture of the effort and what goes wrong. Every fact links to the official source. No scripts, no promises.

• Bid on a California tax-defaulted property
  When property taxes go unpaid for years, the county can sell the parcel at auction. Here's how those sales work, what you actually get, and the many ways a parcel can drop out or cost more than the winning bid.
• Buy a work vehicle at a government auction in California
  State, federal, county and city fleets sell used trucks and vans online. Here's the path from finding a sale to driving it legally: the sellers, the paperwork, the DMV steps, and the ways it goes wrong.
• How to find commercial electrical and HVAC work in SF and San José before it's bid
  Reading building permits for tenant improvements a small shop can still bid, with real examples.

Educational only; not legal, tax or financial advice. Rules change, so check each official source before you act.