States › Iowa › Dallas County

County Courthouse
801 Court Street
Adel, IA 50003-1476
Phone: (515)993-5816
Fax: (515)993-6997
www.co.dallas.ia.us/

Auction Type: Tax Lien Certificate
Bidding Method: Random Selection

Tax Sale Overview:

If Dallas county, Iowa 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 Dallas county, Iowa.

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

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

Why would investors do this?

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

Elected Public Officials:

Name:	Position:	Email:
Kim Champman	Supervisor, Chair	kchapman@co.dallas.ia.us
Brad Golightly	Supervisor	bgolightly@co.dallas.ia.us
Mark Hanson	Supervisor	mhanson@co.dallas.ia.us
Wayne Reisetter	County Attorney	wreisetter@co.dallas.ia.us
Darrell Bauman	Treasurer	dbauman@co.dallas.ia.us
Gene Krumm	Auditor	gkrumm@co.dallas.ia.us
Carol Hol	Recorder	chol@co.dallas.ia.us

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