Sunrise: What is Sunrise Financial?

"These people aren't easy to get ahold of."

"They don't respond to anybody."

Havre Realtor Sheila Forshee said the former, City Council chairman Andrew Brekke the latter. The sentiment was echoed several times as this series of articles on Sunrise Financial Group LLC was being written.

Sunrise Financial Group is a company that buys tax liens at annual tax lien sales across Montana. They've bought 80 tax liens in Hill County in the last four years - 20 of those properties became the company's. The properties Sunrise owns in Havre are abandoned and disheveled. And despite interest from loc...