Sometimes, we like to waste half a day at sheriff’s sales. Mortgage Foreclosure, Tax Lien, Tax Delinquency, it doesn’t matter the flavor, it’s always the same shtick; a well air-conditioned room on the third floor of 3801 Market St. that’s teeming with realtors, developers, contractors, speculators, slumlords, flippers, onlookers, and so forth, all hypnotized by the monotone voice of the least excited auctioneer you can imagine.

These sales, which typically attract hundreds of people, take place three times a month. When do they happen? What are the properties going to sale? How does all of this work? Your first instinct, in this digital age we live in, would be to check the website for the sheriff’s office, right? There’s just one little problem with that approach…

This is what pops up when you go onto the website for the Sheriff’s Office, a (probably unnecessary) department of…