States › California › Amador County

County Courthouse
500 Argonaut Lane
Jackson, CA 95642-9534
Phone: (209)223-6470
www.co.amador.ca.us

Auction Type: Tax Deed
Interest/Penalty Rate: NA
Bidding Method: Bid Up
Redemption: NA
Assignments: No

Tax Sale Overview:

If Amador county, California 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 Amador county, California.

Property taxes that are delinquent are added to any previously uncollected taxes on a parcel of Amador county. Parcels whose taxes are subject to sale will be advertised in a Amador 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 Amador county tax sale auction and is also posted on the Internet.

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

Why would investors do this?

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

Elected Public Officials:

Name:	Position:	Email:
Richard Forster	Supervisor, Chair, District 2	rforster@co.amador.ca.us
Mario Biagi	Supervisor, District 5	mbiagi@co.amador.ca.us
Louis Boitano	Supervisor, District 4	lboitano@co.amador.ca.us
Richard Escamilla	Supervisor, District 1	rescamilla@co.amador.ca.us
Richard Vinson	Supervisor, District 3	rvinson@co.amador.ca.us
Todd Riebe	District Attorney	triebe@co.amador.ca.us
Michael Prizmich	Sheriff-Coroner
Michael Ryan	Treasurer/Tax Collector	mryan@co.amador.ca.us
Joe Lowe	Auditor-Controller	jlowe@co.amador.ca.us
Jim Rooney	Assessor	jrooney@co.amador.ca.us
Sheldon Johnson	Clerk/Recorder	sjohnson@co.amador.ca.us

Please contact the county to get the most current information. To report any errors, updates, deletions or additions click here.

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