Dallas-Fort Worth Real Estate Investor Club

When making an offer on a house with delinquent property tax, should I specifically put it somewhere on the TREC contract that some of the money will be going to county?  If I wholesale a property, obviously I'll tell the cash buyer just so there's no surprises.  But if the seller thinks they're getting $20,000 at the table, but the taxing authority collects $5,000 of that and they can only walk away with $15,000, will that cause any problems?

The seller should know they owe back taxes.  If they don't know, you're actually doing them a favor by telling them ASAP.  The title company will certainly tell them, so it's much better to avoid the last minute drama of the seller finding out they owe a lot of taxes at the closing table.