States › West Virginia › Mason County

County Courthouse
200 6th Street
Point Pleasant, WV 25550-1131
Phone: (304)675-0976
Fax: (304)675-2521

Auction Type: Tax Lien Certificate
Bidding Method: Premium Bid

Tax Sale Overview:

If Mason county, West 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 Mason county, West Virginia.

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

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

Why would investors do this?

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

Elected Public Officials:

Name:	Position:	Email:
Bob Baird	Commissioner, Chair
Miles Epling	Commissioner	Milese@Charter.Net
Rick Handley	Commissioner	Rhandley35@Yahoo.Com
Damon Morgan Jr.	Prosecuting Attorney
Scott Simms	County Sheriff
Ron Hickman	County Assessor	rhickman@assessor.state.wv.us
Diana Pearson Cromley	County Clerk	masoncoclerk@eurekanet.com
Bill Withers	Circuit Clerk	masoncircuitclk@citynet.net

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