States › South Dakota › Aurora County

County Courthouse
PO Box 397
Plankinton, SD 57368-0397
Phone: (605) 942-7752

Auction Type: Tax Lien Certificate
Bidding Method: Premium Bid

Tax Sale Overview:

If Aurora county, South Dakota 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 Aurora county, South Dakota.

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

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

Why would investors do this?

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

Elected Public Officials:

Name:	Position:	Email:
Pat Cranny	Commissioner
Ronald Koch	Commissioner
Delayne Persson	Commissioner
John Steichen	Commissioner
Oscar Thompson	Commissioner
John Steele	States Attorney
David Fink	Sheriff
Maxine Schroeder	Treasurer	auroratreas@juno.com
Susan Urban	Auditor	susan.urban@state.sd.us
Arlene Koch	Register of Deeds	Arlene.Koch@State.Sd.Us

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

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