States › West Virginia › Wetzel County

County Courthouse
P.O. Box 156
New Martinsville, WV 26155-0156
Phone: (304) 455-8224

Auction Type: Tax Lien Certificate
Bidding Method: Premium Bid

Tax Sale Overview:

If Wetzel 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 Wetzel county, West Virginia.

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

To solve this problem Wetzel county, West Virginia allows investors to pay off these taxes. In exchange the investor receives the Wetzel 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 Wetzel 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:
Robert Gorby	Commissioner, Chair
Barbara King	Commissioner	Bking@Rcvideo.Com
Don Mason	Commissioner	donnet@ovis.net
Timothy Haught	Prosecuting Attorney
James Hoskins	Sheriff
Henry Parsons	County Surveyor
Ralph Phillips	County Assessor	rphilli1@assessor.state.wv.us
Carol Marshall Haught	County Clerk
Sharon Dulaney	Circuit Clerk

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