Conejos County, CO tax sales
Tax Sale Atlas maps the Conejos County, CO tax sale, one of 3,131 counties in 51 states. Colorado sells tax lien certificates paying up to 13%. Sale office, calendar and list locations read from the county’s own official pages on Oct 12, 2026.
How tax lien and tax deed sales work in Conejos County, seat of Conejos: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
New to tax sales? Read how Colorado tax sales work or look terms up in the glossary.
- Next certificate sale
- Certificate sale scheduled for November 19, 2026.Thursday · 2026
- Format
- ZEUS
- Registration
- What sells is a certificate of option for treasurer's deed, not the parcel outright.
- County office
- (719) 376-5919
On this page
How Conejos County sells delinquent taxes
Tax certificate sale (lien)
- Run by
- Conejos County Treasurer and Public Trustee
- Frequency
- annual
- Registration
- All bidders must register with SRI through the Zeus Auction site to participate.
- Next expected
- by the second Monday in December, 2026 (window; exact date posts closer to the sale)
When it runs
Registration and deposit
All bidders must register with SRI through the Zeus Auction site to participate. SRI and the Conejos County Treasurer then approve each bidder. The bidder completes and electronically signs a W-9 inside the secure auction system, supplying name, address, and Social Security or employer ID number. Registration for the 2026 sale runs October 19 through November 18, 2026, and the county states no registrations will be allowed after 12:00 p.m. on November 18, 2026, the day before the sale. Certificates are issued only in the name on the registration form. Payment for all winning bids is by ACH debit from the bank account entered during registration, which is the only accepted form of payment, and the county initiates the debit within 24 hours of the close of the last batch. Bidder questions about auction operation go to SRI at 1-800-800-9588.
Sale format and venue
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- County Treasurer
- Frequency
- on application
- Typical timing
- There is no fixed calendar.
- Registration
- What sells is a certificate of option for treasurer's deed, not the parcel outright.
When it runs
Registration and deposit
What sells is a certificate of option for treasurer's deed, not the parcel outright. The treasurer may only accept bids above the combined amount owed to the lawful holder plus the treasurer's fees and costs. County officials, county employees acting in their individual capacity, and their immediate family members may not bid. Payment is by cash, cashier's check, bank check, or electronic funds transfer subject to the treasurer's bidding rules. Any overbid goes to junior lienors who filed a notice of intent to redeem and then to the property owner. Confirm the notice, the bidding rules, and the auction venue with the county treasurer.
Sale format and venue
Conejos County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Conejos County tax sale 2026 searches, use the county-run sources below rather than a copied parcel list, and confirm the parcel, registration cutoff, deposit, and payment deadline against the county before you bid. If the parcels on this list are vacant land rather than houses, what buying land at a tax sale hands you is the place to start.
Confirm the advertised parcel list
Use 2026 Tax Lien Sale Information and advertised real estate list as a starting reference. Check which sale or list it covers; a Lands Available or office information page is separate from an auction parcel list. Ask the sale office for the advertised parcels for the auction you plan to attend.Register to bid
Sale day
Certificate sale scheduled for November 19, 2026. Bidding runs on ZEUS; check posted sale dates, registration status, and bidding windows there.Confirm with the office
If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use the County Treasurer as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Conejos County
4 checks
Confirm the parcel list before pricing
Open 2026 Tax Lien Sale Information and advertised real estate list. Confirm whether this reference contains the auction parcels or covers a different list. Get the advertised parcel list from the county before you price a bid, and recheck it before the sale.Confirm registration and deposit
What sells is a certificate of option for treasurer's deed, not the parcel outright. The treasurer may only accept bids above the combined amount owed to the lawful holder plus the treasurer's fees and costs. County officials, county employees acting in their individual capacity, and their immediate family members may not bid. Payment is by cash, cashier's check, bank check, or electronic funds transfer subject to the treasurer's bidding rules. Any overbid goes to junior lienors who filed a notice of intent to redeem and then to the property owner. Confirm the notice, the bidding rules, and the auction venue with the county treasurer.
Check the state rules that change the bid
Read the Colorado due-diligence checklist before bidding. Redemption, liens that survive a tax deed, title cleanup, and payment deadlines can change what a parcel is worth. Which liens survive is state law, so read what survives a tax deed in Colorado before you price the title work.Set a walk-away number
Work out what the parcel is actually worth with the rural land value estimator, then turn it into a ceiling with the tax deed max-bid calculator.
Over-the-counter (leftover) purchases
unsold liens and deeds
Liens that draw no bid are struck off to the county and the treasurer issues the county a certificate of purchase. The county may then assign, sell, or transfer those certificates in the manner, at the times, and on the terms set by resolution of the board of county commissioners, which is how county-held liens are sold between annual auctions. A certificate on property owing more than ten thousand dollars in taxes needs the property tax administrator's approval after published notice. Whether a county maintains a published county-held list, and on what terms, varies. Contact the county treasurer.
New to this path? Read how over-the-counter certificates work. Every state has its own name for what goes unsold, so check what Colorado calls its leftover tax-sale inventory.
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County offices
Tax Collector (runs the certificate sale)
County notes
- Treasurer of record is Mack M. Crowther, named on the county's published tax lien sale information.
- Office hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., excluding holidays.
- Property tax search and payment run through the county's Tyler-hosted portal at https://conejoscountyco-treasurer.tylerhost.net/treasurer/web/.
- Property taxes are due in full April 30, or in halves at the end of February and June 15, per C.R.S. 39-10-104.5 as cited by the county.
- Delinquent mobile home and personal property taxes are advertised in September for distraint and sale, on a separate track from the real property lien sale.
- The county cites C.R.S. 39-12-111 for the 8 percent rate paid to a certificate holder when a lien is found to have been wrongfully sold.
- The county warns that recent and ongoing Colorado legislation on Treasurer's Deeds means deed-stage rules and policies can change.
Colorado rules
- Redemption
- Redemption may be made at any time before a treasurer's deed is executed, so the practical window runs past the three-year mark and into the Article 11.5 process. Once a deed application is pending, the owner must file an intent to redeem with the treasurer no later than seven calendar days before the scheduled public auction, then pay the amount on the redemption statement while it is in effect, and must redeem the entire property. The auction itself is set 30 to 60 calendar days after the treasurer mails the notice of public auction. A separate rule lets an owner who was under a legal disability when a tax deed was executed under Article 11 redeem within nine years of the deed being recorded, at 15 percent per year plus the present value of any improvements.
- Deed deposit
- The treasurer may require the applying lawful holder to deposit up to one thousand dollars plus statutory fees when the application is accepted, applied against the treasurer's fees and costs, and all Article 11.5 fees and costs are chargeable as additional amounts owing under the certificate of purchase. A third-party winner may be charged up to three hundred dollars for processing. The statute sets no bidder deposit percentage, so payment terms come from the treasurer's written auction policies.
- Surplus proceeds
- Junior lienors whose liens were recorded before the application for treasurer's deed may file a claim for overbid money within eight business days after the auction. Between the ninth and fifteenth business day the overbid is paid to them in order of recording priority, each up to the unpaid lien plus fees and costs, and whatever remains goes to the property owner. The treasurer mails the owner a notice within thirty days after the claim period ends. Unclaimed overbid stays in escrow for two years without interest to the claimant. Amounts under twenty-five dollars left unclaimed for six months go to the county general fund, and larger amounts left unclaimed for two years go to the state treasurer as unclaimed property. An agreement to pay someone to recover an unclaimed overbid is enforceable only if the fee is capped at ten percent and the agreement is made at least two years after the transfer.
A tax deed does not convey marketable title. Most buyers file a quiet title action before they can resell or insure the property. See the due diligence guide.
Frequently asked questions
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Verified Oct 12, 2026 against official county and state sources.
Tax Sale Atlas publishes educational information about public tax sale processes. This is not legal, financial, or investment advice. Rules, dates, and fees change; confirm with the office that runs the sale before you bid.
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