Yes you are liable for the taxes and any other liens that you find out about. Pay it and pay all the other liens. The preliminary title report also should have any other liens on it. If you cannot figure out how to read the report then hire a title officer to help you out. Call any reliable title company to do this. Pay them to run generate a new preliminary title report and help you understand it.
Now the scolding.
How anyone can go to a trustee sale and not have a full review of a title report is pretty much incomprehensible. What has happened to you should be a lessen to everyone that buying a home from trustee sale is big boy stuff. It is not hard, anyone can do it, but without taking the proper precautions and doing it the right way you can get burned. The first and most very basic of steps is to have good title connections so that you can get title information on the subject property. There are several other steps to take as well.
Hopefully this is the only thing that you will have to deal with. If you plan to keep going to trustee sales please take some time and spend some money to research the properties so you don’t get burned.
