States › North Carolina › Gaston County

County Courthouse
PO Box 1578
Gastonia, NC 28053-1578
Phone: (704) 866-3100
Fax: (704) 866-3147
www.co.gaston.nc.us

Auction Type: Tax Deed
Bidding Method: Bid up

Tax Sale Overview:

If Gaston county, North Carolina 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 Gaston county, North Carolina.

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

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

Why would investors do this?

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

Elected Public Officials:

Name:	Position:	Email:
Tom Keigher	Chair Commissioner	tckcom@aol.com
Jack Brown	Commissioner
Pearl Burris-Floyd	Commissioner	pfloyd@co.gaston.nc.us
Joe Carpenter	Commissioner	kingspinnacle@aol.com
Allen Fraley	Commissioner
Mickey Price	Commissioner, Vice Chair	mprice@co.gaston.nc.us
John Torbett	Commissioner	jtorbett@co.gaston.nc.us
Allan Cloninger	Sheriff	acloninger@co.gaston.nc.us
Susan Lockridge	Register of Deeds	slockridge@co.gaston.nc.us

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