1|One of your own posted a real rep this week, and it's worth walking file by file. 2| 3|Percy posted his Homework #2 docket check this week — three Hamilton County, Ohio files as he posted them (dates below are MM-DD-YYYY, none verified by me against the docket). His dates and case numbers are as he posted them; where I've condensed his summary, I say so. Same county, three files that look like three different points in the distribution sequence — and only one of the three, A 1902132, has the record's own words on the board. That took a nudge. 4| 5|- A 1505764, foreclosure judgment 12-06-2017. Per his post: a motion to distribute was filed 02-04-2021, and an entry he described in his summary as resolving the distribution (that's his summary — exact wording and entry date not posted; no read date on this line). 6| 7|- A 1900394, foreclosure judgment 03-10-2020. Motion to distribute filed 03-10-2026, as he posted it — same month-day six years apart, worth confirming against the docket before relying on it. Separately: no ruling entry as of his 10-06-2026 read. 8| 9|- A 1902132, foreclosure judgment 11-05-2020. No motion to distribute in his pull. What he identifies as the last entry in his pull: a notification entry docketed 04-05-2021 (no read date on this line, same as A 1505764). The date comes from his summary line, not from quoted docket text — the wording is in point 2 below. 10| 11|What this rep got right — and what tightened after a nudge: 12| 13|1. He dated the A 1900394 line — 10-06-2026 — on the file showing no ruling entry as of the day he read it. My read: a docket reading means something anchored to the day you read it. Date every line with the day you read it, not just one. 14|2. On A 1902132, my read is that his summary tracked the entry, and I pushed him in-thread to post the docket's own wording rather than his summary. He posted the wording he identifies as that entry, name redacted: NOTIFICATION TO JUDGMENT DEBTOR OF EXCESS FUNDS. SERVICE SENT BY REG MAIL TO [name redacted]. That line is as he posted it in the thread. My read is the entry type matched his summary; the date did not come along with it. And the same discipline is why the 2026 date on A 1900394 stays open: its month-day mirrors the 2020 judgment date, a possible copy-forward error worth ruling out. Only the docket's own entry settles it.

Teardown day. We pulled a county whose last four years of auction results are short enough to read in one sitting. Churchill County, Nevada. The county publishes its delinquent tax auction results as reconciliation files, one per year. We pulled the last four years. Four short files. What these files show: - 2026 auction (May 15, 2026): 9 parcels sold - 2025 auction (April 17, 2025): 1 parcel sold - 2024 auction (April 18, 2024): 2 parcels sold - 2023 auction (April 14, 2023): 3 parcels sold Fifteen parcels in four years. That is a different world from the multi-county statewide lists we have walked through here before, and it changes how you work the file. Three things these four files teach: 1. A short file lets you read every row. The recent files list parcel, previous owner, successful bidder, and the bid and sale columns. When a file is this small, you can genuinely read it end to end and see exactly what the county chose to publish — and equally, notice what an auction-results file by definition won't show, such as redemptions or sales that never reach auction. Once a list runs into the thousands of rows, in our experience a full read stops being practical. 1. Ownership patterns are visible. In the 2026 file, one previous owner's name appears on 5 of the 9 rows, and those parcels sold to two different bidders. In 2024, the same bidder took both parcels sold. One read of that pattern: whether these same names recur across years is exactly what next year's file lets you check. That is a question to carry forward, not a conclusion from one file. 1. Some counties publish more than others. In our reading, many counties post auction results and stop there. Churchill's reconciliation layout makes the outcome of each sale that reached auction readable. Before you commit hours to a county, pull one of its own files and see how much it actually discloses — a county that publishes clearly is easier to work from and easier to check yourself against.