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County Courthouse
13 East Canal Street
Sumter, SC 29150-4925
Phone: (803)773-1581
Fax: (803)436-2108
www.sumtercountysc.org/

Auction Type: Tax Lien Certificate
Bidding Method: Premium Bid

Tax Sale Overview:


If Sumter county, South 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 Sumter county, South Carolina.

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

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

Why would investors do this?

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

Elected Public Officials:


Name:  Position:  Email: 
Louis FlemingCouncil Chairman, District 6 
Artie BakerCounty Council 
Eugene BatenCounty Council 
Charles EdensCounty Council 
Ronald EldridgeCounty Council 
Vivian Fleming-McGhaneyCouncil Vice Chairman 
Roland RobinsonCounty Councilvgagency@ftc-i.net
Verna MooreCoronervmoore@sumtercountysc.org
Anthony DennisSheriffadennis@sumtercountysc.org
Carolina RichardsonTreasurercrichardson@sumtercountysc.org
James CampbellClerk of Courtjacampbell@sumtercountysc.org

Please contact the county to get the most current information. To report any errors, updates, deletions or additions click here.


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