Anderson County plans to sell 32 tracts of property, condemned for delinquent taxes at an upcoming tax foreclosure sale. The County’s last tax sale sent about 52 properties to the auction block in 2019. Tax sales follow what is usually years of notices to property owners and often repeated publications in an annual advertisement that lists tax-delinquent property owners and tracts, which is published in local newspapers each August, according to State Law.
Because of the expense of Foreclosure Sales in legal work and notifications, most counties have sales every couple years. Anderson County adopted a policy several years ago, of stepping up the rate of tax sales to be more aggressive in getting delinquent properties back onto the paying tax rolls. Tax sales typically net only a small percentage of the total taxes owed, though local governments figure it’s worth it to get the property out of the hands of non-payers and into the hands of those who will utilize the property and pay the taxes going forward.
