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Board to set minimum bid prices
DAVENPORT —The Lincoln County Commissioners discussed county tax title properties with Treasurer Emily Hansen and Assessor J Scott Liebing at the Commissioners’ regular meeting Monday, March 4.
Hansen explained that tax title properties are properties that have gone up for foreclosure. If it is not bought through auction, it gets deeded into Lincoln County’s name and is removed from the tax rolls.
There are currently 27 tax title properties in Lincoln County. Hansen said one parcel in Odessa, Lot 4 of Bromstad Plat B-95, has received interest and asked the Commissioners for guidance on how to proceed with that parcel and other tax title properties.
That parcel was foreclosed in March 2012 and went to auction with no sale in Oct. 2018. It has an assessed value of $2,500.
Commissioner Rob Coffman suggested that the County proceed with an auction while picking a few that have the possibility of selling with a minimum bid, with said minimum bid set by the Commissioners as mandated by RCW. The Treasurer’s Office will recommend a number to the Commissioners for approval.
The other 26 properties currently listed under tax title status are:
• The south six feet of the west 50 feet of the east 90 feet of Lot 3, Block 24 in Harrington. It was foreclosed in July 1981 and is valued at $470.
• Lot 12 of Block 12 in Odessa. It was foreclosed in Oct. 1936 and is valued at $250.
• Lot 1 of Block 13 in Odessa. It was foreclosed in Oct. 1946 and is valued at $0.
• A triangle piece at the end of Second Avenue in Odessa. It was foreclosed in Nov. 2007 and is valued at $0.
• The northeast and southeast portions of Lot 6 of Block 9 in Sprague. The northeast portion foreclosed in May 2018 and is valued at $4,450, while the southeast portion foreclosed in March 2017 and is valued at $100.
• Tax numbers 1-3, 5-6 and 8 of Blakes Addition in Wilbur. It foreclosed in Dec. 1930 and Oct. 1936 and is valued at $1,500.
• Lots 5-6 of Railroad Addition in Wilbur. It foreclosed in March 1942 and is valued at $0.
• Lots 1-9 of Block 74 of Railroad Addition in Wilbur. It foreclosed in Dec. 1928 and is valued at $0.
• A portion of the northwest southwest Section 26, Township 22, Range 31. Located just west of Odessa, it foreclosed in Sept. 1944 and is valued at $100.
• Seven parcels of Waukesha in Section 15. Located northwest of Odessa near Lakeview Ranch Loop Lane, all parcels foreclosed in April 1997 aside from one foreclosed in May 1999 and are all valued at $0.
• A 15.52-acre portion of the Bluestem Branch Great Northern Railroad in Section 9, Township 25, Range 36. Located northwest of Davenport near Seven Mile Road, it foreclosed in Oct. 1936 and it valued at $15,520.
• Lots 13-14 of Block 135 in the Town of South Waukesha. It was foreclosed in March 2017 and is valued at $100.
• A portion of Section 27, Township 22, Range 31. Located west of Irby, it was foreclosed in Sept. 1944 and is valued at $100.
• A 1320’ by 1’ portion of Section 32, Township 23, Range 33. Located north of Odessa off Deife Road, it foreclosed in Sept. 1944 and is valued at $0.
• A portion of Section 11, Township 23, Range 36. Located northeast of Harrington just east of State Highway 28 and Coal Springs Road, it foreclosed in Sept. 1944 and is valued at $1,880.
• A portion of Block 4 in Edwall, Hotchkiss Second Addition. It foreclosed in Nov. 1954 and is valued at $0.
• The south 10 feet of Lot 5, Block 3 in Edwall. It foreclosed in May 2010 and is valued at $0.
• A portion of Lot 1, Block 10 in Bluestem. It foreclosed in Nov. 2007 and is valued at $0.
• A portion of the northeast southeast portion of Section 26, Township 24, Range 36. Located in Waukon near Sobek and Waukon Roads, it foreclosed in Oct. 1936 and is valued at $1,500.
Drew Lawson is the editor of the Davenport Times. He is a graduate of Eastern Washington University.
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