States › Maine › Piscataquis County

County Courthouse
51 E. Main Street
Dover Foxcroft, ME 04426-1300
Phone: (207)564-2161

Auction Type: Tax Deed
Bidding Method: Sealed Bid

Tax Sale Overview:

If Piscataquis county, Maine 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 Piscataquis county, Maine.

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

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

Why would investors do this?

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

Elected Public Officials:

Name:	Position:	Email:
Woodrouffe Bartley Jr.	Commissioner, District 1	tony-b@verizon.net
Thomas Lizotte	Commissioner	tlizotte@mayohospital.com
Frederick Trask	Commissioner	traskins@midmaine.com
R. Christopher Almy	District Attorney
John Goggin	Sheriff	piscataquiscoso@cji.net
Judith Raymond	Register of Probate	pisccourt@foxcroft.pvt.k12.me.
Donna Hathaway	Treasurer
Linda Smith	Register of Deeds

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