I have never heard of anybody wanting to get information like that.
Your last couple of questions are legal questions, not real estate questions. You might want to consult with an attorney or a firm of attorneys that specialize in FOIA request litigation.
If you would indicate what use you plan to make of those old records somebody might be able to give you some more suggestions. For instance, are you planning to do buying of “no known owner” properties? If so, the source would be the county land records, not the assessor’s office.
I’m interested in property tax information. Specifically, let’s say Town X, I am interested in property tax information on all of Town X’s property going back as far as they have tax records for. I know of Metroscan and a couple others but the one I checked didn’t offer the complete records (anything less is no good). Anyone use a service or something that provides all of a town/county’s property tax records? Anyone heard of such a thing?
The local assessor wants to charge me $20 to research just one (I can get current year/decade information on my own no problem; it’s going back in time which is the issue and they won’t let me into the vault even though this is public information). This will get very expensive fast so I thought I’d check here to see if there’s a better way. Does anyone know if entities can charge for access to FOIA-covered material? Would property tax information fall under that?