States › Missouri › Benton County

County Courthouse
P.O. Box 1238
Warsaw, MO 65355-1238
Phone: (660)438-7406

Auction Type: Tax Lien Certificate
Bidding Method: Premium Bid

Tax Sale Overview:

If Benton county, Missouri 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 Benton county, Missouri.

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

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

Why would investors do this?

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

Elected Public Officials:

Name:	Position:	Email:
Rodney Meyer	Presiding Commissioner	bentoncounty@earthlink.net
Tom Henderson	Associate Commissioner
Walter Schumacher Jr.	Associate Commissioner
Karen Coffey-Woodley	Prosecuting Attorney
Donna Hart	Public Administrator
James Miller	Coroner
Gary Friar	Sheriff
Rick Renno	Treasurer
Roger Reedy	Assessor
J. D. Johnson	County Collector
Mary Lutman	County Clerk
Cheryl Schultz	Circuit Clerk-Recorder

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