States › Florida › Bay County

County Courthouse
P.O. Box 1818
Panama City, FL 32402-1818
Phone: (850) 747-5100
Fax: (850) 784-4026
www.co.bay.fl.us

Auction Type: Tax Lien Certificate
Bidding Method: Bid Down

Tax Sale Overview:

If Bay county, Florida 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 Bay county, Florida.

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

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

Why would investors do this?

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

Elected Public Officials:

Name:	Position:	Email:
George Gainer	Commissioner, Chair, District 2	ggainer@co.bay.fl.us
William Dozier	Commissioner, District 3	wdozier@co.bay.fl.us
Jerry Girvin	Commissioner, District 4	jgirvin@co.bay.fl.us
Mike Nelson	Commissioner, District 1	mnelson@co.bay.fl.us
Mike Thomas	Commissioner, District 5	mthomas@co.bay.fl.us
Frank McKeithen	Sheriff
Rick Barnett	Property Appraiser
Peggy Brannon	Tax Collector
Harold Bazzel	Clerk of Courts	TAMMYHOF@YAHOO.COM
Mark Andersen	Supervisor of Elections

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

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