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County Courthouse
60 Central Avenue
Cortland, NY 13045-2717
Phone: (607) 753-5052
www2.cortland-co.org/

Auction Type: Tax Deed
Bidding Method: Bid up

Tax Sale Overview:

If Cortland county, New York 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 Cortland county, New York.

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

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

Why would investors do this?

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

Elected Public Officials:

Name:	Position:	Email:
Scott Steve	Chair, County Legislature, District	ssteve@cortland-co.org
Paul Allen	County Legislator, District 14	pallen@easterncopy.com
Merwin Armstrong	County Legislator, District 16	marmstrong@cortland-co.org
Kurt Behrenfeld	County Legislator, District 6	kbehrenfeld@cortland-co.org
Kay Breed	County Legislator, District 13
Marilyn Brown	County Legislator, District 8
Lawrence Cornell	County Legislator, District 18
Steven Dafoe	County Legislator, District 11	sdafoe@cortland-co.org
Paul DiGiovanni	County Legislator, District 1
R Scott Elston	County Legislator, District 19	selston@cortland-co.org
Thomas Hartnett	County Legislator, District 4	thartnett@cortland-co.org
Michael McKee	County Legislator, District 17	mmckee@cortland-co.org
Danny Ross	County Legislator, District 12	dross@cortland-co.org
John Steger Jr.	County Legislator, District 15	jsteger@cortland-co.org
Daniel Tagliente	County Legislator, District 7	dtagliente@cortland-co.org
Carol Tytler	County Legislator, District 3	ctytler@cortland-co.org
Ronald Van Dee	County Legislator	rvandee@cortland.co.org
David Wern	County Legislator, District 10
Newell Willcox	County Legislator, District 9	nwillcox@cortland-co.org
David Hartnett	District Attorney
Lee Price	Sheriff
Donald Ferris	County Treasurer
Elizabeth Larkin	County Clerk	elarkin@cortland-co.org
Robert Howe	Election Commissioner	rhowe@cortland-co.org

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