States › Idaho › Latah County

County Courthouse
522 South Adams Street, Suite 1
Moscow, ID 83843-2971
Phone: (208) 882-8580
www.latah.id.us/

Auction Type: Tax Deed
Bidding Method: Bid Up

Tax Sale Overview:

If Latah county, Idaho 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 Latah county, Idaho.

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

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

Why would investors do this?

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

Elected Public Officials:

Name:	Position:	Email:
John Nelson	Commissioner, Chair, District 3	jnelson@latah.id.us
Paul Kimmell	Commissioner, District 1	pkimmell@latah.id.us
Tom Stroschein	Commissioner, District 2	toms@latah.id.us
Bill Thompson	Prosecuting Attorney	pa@latah.id.us
Daniel Schmidt	Coroner
Wayne Rausch	Sheriff	wrausch@latah.id.us
Leslie Proctor	Treasurer	lproctor@latah.id.us
Susan Petersen	Clerk	spetersen@latah.id.us

Please contact the county to get the most current information. To report any errors, updates, deletions or additions click here.

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