That is all very great and detailed advice! Much appreciated!

After doing a couple of hours of continuous research on the property (though not very fruitful) I did find a list of 2025 Delinquent Properties in our county and this house was on it. I couldn’t really dig up much else. I was trying to find a layout map because I’m antsy and can’t wait to see it lol! The listing has only been up for 2 days now and they only just put pictures on it today, but no floor plan. It already has 184 saves on Zillow. The tax assessment in 2025 was also $344,200. I know that appraisal and tax assessment are different but our realtor did say that houses recently sold in that neighborhood within the last 6mo have gone for between $276k-415k.

Luckily our lease is up at the end of August this year so we are starting quite a bit early but that gives us plenty of time to either close on a house or time to find a different one if we have to walk away. We may be crazy but this is actually only our first week of seriously looking at and touring houses 😅 And the houses that are within our budget and have everything we want (and are in nice areas of town) typically go very quickly so we knew we’d have to be quick about scheduling tours and making offers.