States › Alabama › Morgan County

County Courthouse
P.O. Box 668
Decatur, AL 35602-0668
Phone: (256) 351-4737
Fax: (256) 351-4738
www.co.morgan.al.us

Auction Type: Tax Lien Certificate
Interest/Penalty Rate: 12% Interest
Bidding Method: Premium Bid
Redemption: 3 years
Assignments: Yes

Tax Sale Overview:

If Morgan county, Alabama is unable to collect real estate property taxes they are also unable to provide important government services like police protection, public schooling and medical services.

Unpaid property taxes create a serious cashflow problem for Morgan county, Alabama.

Property taxes that are delinquent are added to any previously uncollected taxes on a parcel of Morgan county. Parcels whose taxes are subject to sale will be advertised in a Morgan county newspaper of general circulation. They are listed by sequence number. Parcels fall into 1 of 2 groups. Each group is sorted by parcel number.

The advertisement appears about three to six weeks before the Morgan county tax sale auction and is also posted on the Internet.

To solve this problem Morgan county, Alabama allows investors to pay off these taxes. In exchange the investor receives the Morgan county, Alabama lien for taxes. A tax lien is simply a claim for delinquent taxes.

Why would investors do this?

Well, depending on Alabama laws and competition, savvy Morgan county tax sale investors can realize high-yielding returns with Alabama tax lien certificates and/or purchase real estate for a fraction of its true market value with Alabama tax deeds.

Elected Public Officials:

Name:	Position:	Email:
John Glasscock	Chairman	jglasscock@co.morgan.al.us
Jeff Clark	Commissioner, District 1	jclark@co.morgan.al.us
Stacy Lee George	Commissioner, District 4	stacygeorge@mindspring.com
Richard Lyons	Commissioner
Kevin Murphy	Commissioner
Sue Baker Roan	County Commissioner Of License
Steve Crabbe	County Sheriff

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