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County Courthouse
101 West Main Street
Kingwood, WV 26537-1121
Phone: (304)329-1805

Auction Type: Tax Lien Certificate
Bidding Method: Premium Bid

Tax Sale Overview:


If Preston 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 Preston county, West Virginia.

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

To solve this problem Preston county, West Virginia allows investors to pay off these taxes. In exchange the investor receives the Preston 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 Preston 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: 
L. Darwin WolfeCommissioner, ChairprestonCo@hotmail.com
Victoria ColeCommissionerprestonCo@hotmail.com
David PriceCommissioner 
Melvin SnyderProsecuting Attorneyprestonprosec@mountain.net
Ron CritesCounty Sheriff 
Terri FunkCounty Assessortlfunk@assessor.state.wv.us
Nancy ReckartCounty Clerknireckart@hotmail.com
Betsy CastleCircuit Clerkbetclerkwork@hotmail.com

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