States › Missouri › DeKalb County

County Courthouse
P.O. Box 248
Maysville, MO 64469-0248
Phone: (816)449-5402
Fax: (816)449-2440

Auction Type: Tax Lien Certificate
Bidding Method: Premium Bid

Tax Sale Overview:

If DeKalb 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 DeKalb county, Missouri.

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

To solve this problem DeKalb county, Missouri allows investors to pay off these taxes. In exchange the investor receives the DeKalb 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 DeKalb 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:
Dick Lippold	Presiding Commissioner
Wayne Colhour	Associate Commissioner
Garry Mcfee	Associate Commissioner
Bart Spear	Prosecuting Attorney
Larry Wolf	Public Administrator
Peter Bram	Coroner
Brad Mefford	Sheriff
Joan Pearl	Treasurer
Ruth Ross	Assessor
Mary Berry	County Clerk	dekalb@sos.mo.gov
Clifton Deshon	Circuit Clerk-Recorder

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