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County Courthouse
P.O. Box 1079
Tappahannock, VA 22560-1079
Phone: (804)443-4331
Fax: (804)443-4157
www.essex-virginia.org

Auction Type: Tax Deed
Bidding Method: Bid up

Tax Sale Overview:

If Essex county, Virginia 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 Essex county, Virginia.

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

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

Why would investors do this?

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

Elected Public Officials:

Name:	Position:	Email:
Edwin Smith Jr.	Chair	llumpkin@crosslink.net
Margaret Davis	Supervisor	llumpkin@crosslink.net
E. Stanley Langford Jr.	Supervisor	llumpkin@crosslink.net
Angelo Stevens	Supervisor	llumpkin@crosslink.net
Macdowell Garrett	Commonwealth's Attorney
Stanley Clarke	Sheriff
Annie Taylor	Treasurer
M. D. Franklin	Commissioner Of Revenue
Gayle Ashworth	Clerk of the Court

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

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