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County Courthouse
405 Jefferson Street
Bedford, IA 50833-1300
Phone: (712) 523-2280

Auction Type: Tax Lien Certificate
Bidding Method: Random Selection

Tax Sale Overview:


If Taylor 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 Taylor county, Iowa.

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

To solve this problem Taylor county, Iowa allows investors to pay off these taxes. In exchange the investor receives the Taylor 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 Taylor 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: 
Robert LundquistSupervisor, Chairco87bos@heartland.net
JB FrenchSupervisorco87bos@heartland.net
Bonnie GoddenSupervisorb.godden@mchsi.com
Lonnie WeedSherifftaylorsheriff@frontiernet.net
Pam SpragueTreasurertaylortreas@frontiernet.net
Bonny BakerAuditorauditor@frontiernet.net
Rick SheleyRecordertaylorrec@frontiernet.net

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