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States › Washington › Kitsap County

County Courthouse
614 Division Street, MS-4
Port Orchard, WA 98366-4614
Phone: (360) 337-7146
Fax: (360) 337-4632
www.kitsapgov.com/

Auction Type: Tax Deed
Bidding Method: Bid Up

Tax Sale Overview:

If Kitsap county, Washington 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 Kitsap county, Washington.

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

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

Why would investors do this?

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

Elected Public Officials:

Name:	Position:	Email:
Christene Endresen	Commissioner, Chair, District 1	cendresen@co.kitsap.wa.us
Jan Angel	Commissioner, District 2	jangel@co.kitsap.wa.us
Patty Lent	Commissioner, District 3	plent@co.kitsap.wa.us
Russ Hauge	Prosecuting Attorney	rhauge@co.kitsap.wa.us
Greg Sandstrom	County Coroner	gsandstrom@co.kitsap.wa.us
Steve Boyer	County Sheriff	sboyer@co.kitsap.wa.us
Barbara Stephenson	County Treasurer	bstephen@co.kitsap.wa.us
Karen Flynn	County Auditor	kflynn@co.kitsap.wa.us
Jim Avery	County Assessor	javery@co.kitsap.wa.us
Dave Peterson	County Clerk	dpeterso@co.kitsap.wa.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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