States › Florida › Lake County

County Courthouse
P.O. Box 7800
Tavares, FL 32778-7800
Phone: (352) 343-9850
Fax: (352) 343-9495
www.lakegovernment.com

Auction Type: Tax Lien Certificate
Bidding Method: Bid Down

Tax Sale Overview:

If Lake 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 Lake county, Florida.

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

To solve this problem Lake county, Florida allows investors to pay off these taxes. In exchange the investor receives the Lake 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 Lake 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:
Jennifer Hill	Commissioner, Chair, District 1	jhill@co.lake.fl.us
Welton Cadwell	Commissioner, District 5	wcadwell@co.lake.fl.us
Catherine Hanson	Commissioner, District 4	chanson@co.lake.fl.us
Robert Pool	Commissioner, District 2	rpool@co.lake.fl.us
Debra Stivender	Commissioner, District 3	dstivender@co.lake.fl.us
Anna Cowin	Superintendent of Schools
Chris Daniels	Sheriff
Ed Havill	Property Appraiser
Robert McKee	Tax Collector
James Watkins	Clerk of Courts
Emogene Stegall	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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