States › Florida › Lafayette County

County Courthouse
P.O. Box 88
Mayo, FL 32066-0088
Phone: (386) 294-1600

Auction Type: Tax Lien Certificate
Bidding Method: Bid Down

Tax Sale Overview:

If Lafayette 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 Lafayette county, Florida.

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

To solve this problem Lafayette county, Florida allows investors to pay off these taxes. In exchange the investor receives the Lafayette 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 Lafayette 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:
Curtis Hamlin	Commissioner, Chair, District 3
Twead Byrd	Commissioner, District 4
Charles Driver	Commissioner, District 1
Gail Garrard	Commissioner, District 2
Earnest Jones	Commissioner, District 5
Carson McCall	Sheriff
Timothy Walker	Property Appraiser
Marilyn Wimberly	Tax Collector
Ricky Lyons	Clerk of Courts	rnlclerk@yahoo.com
Lana Morgan	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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