States › Florida › Manatee County

County Courthouse
P.O. Box 1000
Bradenton, FL 34206-1000
Phone: (941)745-3700
Fax: (941)745-3790
www.co.manatee.fl.us/

Auction Type: Tax Lien Certificate
Bidding Method: Bid Down

Tax Sale Overview:

If Manatee 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 Manatee county, Florida.

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

To solve this problem Manatee county, Florida allows investors to pay off these taxes. In exchange the investor receives the Manatee 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 Manatee 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:
Ronald Getman	Commissioner, Chair, District 4
Gwendolyn Brown	Commissioner, District 2	Gwen.Brown@co.manatee.fl.us
Patricia Glass	Commissioner, District At-Large 6	Pat.glass@co.manatee.fl.us
Donna Hayes	Commissioner, District 5	donna.hayes@co.manatee.fl.us
Joe McClash	Commissioner, District At-Large 7	Joe.McClash@co.manatee.fl.us
Amy Stein	Commissioner, District 1	dist5@leegov.com
Jane Von Hahmann	Commissioner, District 3	Jane.VonHahmann@co.manatee.fl.
Charles Wells	Sheriff	charlie.wells@co.manatee.fl.us
Charles Hackney	Property Appraiser	charles.hackney@co.manatee.fl.
Ken Burton Jr.	Tax Collector
Richard Shore	Clerk of Courts	rb@clerkofcourts.com
Robert Sweat	Supervisor of Elections

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