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States › Virginia › Franklin County

County Courthouse
40E. Court Street
Rocky Mount, VA 24151-1304
Phone: (540) 483-3030
Fax: (540) 483-3035
www.franklincountyva.org

Auction Type: Tax Deed
Bidding Method: Bid up

Tax Sale Overview:

If Franklin 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 Franklin county, Virginia.

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

To solve this problem Franklin county, Virginia allows investors to pay off these taxes. In exchange the investor receives the Franklin 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 Franklin 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:
W. Wayne Angell	Chair	countyadmin@franklincountyva.o
David Hurt	Supervisor	davidhurt@franklincountyva.org
Russell Johnson	Supervisor	GILLSCREEK@AOL.COM
W. Leland Mitchell	Supervisor
Charles Poindexter	Supervisor	supvsrcp@sitestor.net
Hubert Quinn	Supervisor	countyadmin@franklincountyva.o
Charles Wagner	Vice Chair	countyadmin@franklincountyva.o
W. Q. Overton	Sheriff
Lynda Messenger	Treasurer	lmessenger@franklincountyva.or
Judy Crook	Commissioner of Revenue	jcrook@franklincountyva.org
Alice Hall	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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