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City-County Building Auction Type: Tax Deed |
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Tax Sale Overview:
If Portage county, Wisconsin 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 Portage county, Wisconsin.
Property taxes that are delinquent are added to any previously uncollected taxes on a parcel of Portage county. Parcels whose taxes are subject to sale will be advertised in a Portage 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 Portage county tax sale auction and is also posted on the Internet.
To solve this problem Portage county, Wisconsin allows investors to pay off these taxes. In exchange the investor receives the Portage county, Wisconsin lien for taxes. A tax lien is simply a claim for delinquent taxes.
Why would investors do this?
Well, depending on Wisconsin laws and competition, savvy Portage county tax sale investors can realize high-yielding returns with Wisconsin tax lien certificates and/or purchase real estate for a fraction of its true market value with Wisconsin tax deeds.
Elected Public Officials:
| Name: | Position: | Email: |
| O. Philip Idsvoog | County Board Chair | |
| Ronald Borski | Supervisor | |
| Jerome Borski | Supervisor | |
| Robert Brilowski | Supervisor | |
| James Clark | Supervisor | |
| Jeanne Dodge | Supervisor | |
| Leif Erickson | Supervisor | |
| Taniya Fatticci | Supervisor | |
| Marion Flood | Supervisor | |
| James Gifford | Supervisor | |
| Charles Gussel | Supervisor | |
| Jesse Higgins | Supervisor | |
| Donald Jankowski | Supervisor | |
| James Krems | Supervisor | phantom@powercom.net |
| Lonnie Krogwold | Supervisor | |
| David Medin | Supervisor | |
| Harvey Olson | Supervisor | okrealty@wi-net.com |
| Tony Patton | Supervisor | |
| Philip Peterson | Supervisor, District 1 | |
| William Peterson | Supervisor | |
| Richard Purcell | Supervisor | purcell1@charter.net |
| John Rendall | Supervisor | |
| Kevin Ruehl | Supervisor | |
| Robert Steinke | Supervisor | |
| Dwight Stevens | Supervisor | |
| Douglas Warner | Supervisor | |
| James Zdroik | Supervisor | |
| W. William Zimdars | Supervisor | zimdars@voyager.net |
| Thomas Eagon | District Attorney | eagon.thomas@mail.da.state.wi. |
| Roger Wrycza | County Clerk | wryczar@co.portage.wi.us |
| Cynthia Wisinski | Register of Deeds | wisinskc@co.portage.wi.us |
| Bernadette Flatoff | Clerk Of Circuit Court | bernadete.flatoff@wicourts.gov |
Please contact the county to get the most current information. To report any errors, updates, deletions or additions click here.
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