States › Washington › Okanogan County

123 5th Avenue North, Room 150
Okanogan, WA 98840-9436
Phone: (509) 422-7100
Fax: (509) 422-7106
www.okanogancounty.org

Auction Type: Tax Deed
Bidding Method: Bid Up

Tax Sale Overview:

If Okanogan 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 Okanogan county, Washington.

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

To solve this problem Okanogan county, Washington allows investors to pay off these taxes. In exchange the investor receives the Okanogan 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 Okanogan 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:
Mary Lou Peterson	Commissioner, Chair, District 3	mlpeterson@co.okanogan.wa.us
Don Hover	Commissioner, District 2	dhover@co.okanogan.wa.us
Andrew Lampe	Commissioner, District 1	alampe@co.okanogan.wa.us
Karl Sloan	Prosecuting Attorney/Coroner	ksloan@co.okanogan.wa.us
Frank Rogers	County Sheriff	frogers@co.okanogan.wa.us
Del Shove	County Treasurer	dshove@co.okanogan.wa.us
Peggy Robbins	County Auditor	robb7673@co.okanogan.wa.us
Scott Furman	County Assessor	sfurman@co.okanogan.wa.us
Jackie Bradley	County Clerk	brad5139@co.okanogan.wa.us

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