Bartow County, GA tax sales
How tax lien certificate and tax deed sales work in Bartow County, seat of Cartersville: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
Verified Jul 27, 2026 against official county and state sources.
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How Bartow County sells delinquent taxes
Tax certificate sale (lien)
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Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Bartow County Tax Commissioner (Steve Stewart, Tax Commissioner)
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- Bartow County publishes no tax sale calendar. Its own Tax Sales page loads with office contact details and no schedule, no property list, and no procedures. The only sale timing the office publishes is the advertising rule on its General Information page: "Four weeks prior to the sale the property will be advertised in the Daily Tribune Local newspaper with additional advertising cost." Georgia's statutory default under O.C.G.A. Title 48, Chapter 4, Article 1 is a first-Tuesday courthouse sale. A third-party Bid4Assets notice-of-sale listing (not a county source, self-disclaimed as unverified) advertised a Bartow County redeemable deed sale on 06/02/26, which is the first Tuesday of June. Confirm the next date directly with the office at (770) 387-5111.
Registration and deposit
No bidder registration procedure, deposit requirement, or payment term is published by the Bartow County Tax Commissioner. No online bidder registration portal is linked from either the county site or the office site. Contact the office at (770) 387-5111 before a sale.
Bartow County appears to run a live, in-person redeemable tax deed sale. The Tax Commissioner links no auction platform, no bidder portal, and no sale list anywhere on its site, and a third-party Bid4Assets notice for the county records the sale type as "Live/In Person" with a "Redeemable Deed" instrument. No online platform URL is reported here because none was verified on an official page. Delinquent process the county does publish: interest accrues on the 16th of each month at prime plus 3 percent divided by 12, a 5 percent penalty is added after 120 days up to a 20 percent maximum, and "A FIFA will be filed in the Clerk of Courts office 30 days from the date on the delinquent notice." The county then states "If taxes remain unpaid, your account will be submitted to Delinquent Tax Services Inc. Additional admin/levy fees will be added. The fees will cover the cost of certified notices as well as a title search to prepare the property for tax sale. The property will also be posted and photographed before the sale." Post-sale, the Tax Commissioner's Office administers excess funds under O.C.G.A. 48-4-5, holds them five years from the date of sale before remitting to the Georgia Department of Revenue Unclaimed Property Division, accepts claims only from claimants or Georgia-licensed attorneys, and refuses asset recovery firms.
County offices
Tax Collector (runs the certificate sale)
Bartow County Tax Commissioner
Frank Moore Administration and Judicial Building, 135 W Cherokee Ave, Suite 217A, Cartersville, GA 30120
Official websiteNotes for Bartow County
- The Tax Commissioner's public Tax Sales page at tax.bartowpay.com/tax-sales.html is empty of substance. It renders the site chrome and the office contact block only, with no sale date, no location, no registration terms, and no property list. Verified against the raw HTML, so this is not a rendering artifact.
- Office hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. Property tax line (770) 387-5111, motor vehicle line (770) 387-5112, fax (770) 387-5018. Deputy Tax Commissioner for property tax is Willene Ward, [email protected].
- The county's legal organ for sale advertising is the Daily Tribune News, with notice running four weeks before the sale.
- Delinquent Tax Services Inc. is the county's contracted levy and collection vendor. It publishes no county-by-county sale lists on its own site, so it is not a usable list source.
- No excess funds or sale results list is published as data. The county posts only a blank Excess Funds and Claim Form PDF (dated 2020) under the Tax Commissioner's Resources section.
- The Bartow County Sheriff's Office site and the Clerk of Superior Court Real Estate Division page carry no tax sale, levy sale, or judicial sale notices.
- The Bid4Assets listings for Bartow County are advertising placements, not auctions. The page text reads "Bid4Assets is providing this notice of sale strictly as a courtesy to our users. Bid4Assets is not conducting this public auction, nor are we affiliated in any way with this sale," and the data is credited to Tax Sale Resources and flagged as unverified. That listing also misnames the conducting office as a "Treasurer's Office," which does not exist in Georgia county government, so treat it as a weak signal only.
- Investor-facing gap: the only reliable way to get the Bartow sale date, terms, and parcel list is a phone call to (770) 387-5111 or the Daily Tribune News legal notices. Any page or dataset should say so rather than imply an online portal exists.
Georgia statewide rules
- Redemption
- The right to redeem runs for 12 months from the date of the sale and does not end there. It continues after the year until the tax deed purchaser forecloses it by serving and publishing the statutory barment notice, which cannot be started until 12 months have passed. The purchaser delivers the notice to the sheriff at least 45 days before the redemption deadline named in it, and publishes it once a week for four consecutive weeks in the six months immediately before that deadline. Redemption puts title back in the defendant in fi. fa. subject to the liens that existed at the sale, and the purchaser must execute and record a quitclaim deed. Title under a tax deed recorded on or after July 1, 1996 ripens by prescription four years after recording. Judicial in rem foreclosures under Article 5 run on a different clock: the owner has 60 days after the sale to redeem by paying the minimum bid price into the superior court.
- Deed deposit
- Georgia sets no statewide percentage deposit. A purchaser at a judicial sale may tender cash or a cashier's or certified check drawn for the purchase price and issued or certified by a federally insured financial institution. Counties publish their own payment terms, and many require payment in full at the close of the sale, so confirm the terms with the tax commissioner before bidding.
- Surplus proceeds
- Excess funds left after taxes, costs, and the expenses of the sale belong to the former owner and to recorded lienholders in order of priority. The officer who sold the property must mail notice of the excess funds by first-class mail within 30 days to the record owner at the time of the sale, to the holder of each security deed, and to every other party with a recorded equity interest or claim, and may file an interpleader action in superior court. Funds still unclaimed five years after the sale are paid over to the Georgia Department of Revenue, after which only a court order from an interpleader action releases them.
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
Does Bartow County, Georgia sell tax liens or tax deeds?
- Bartow County follows Georgia's redeemable deed state system.
How often does Bartow County hold tax deed sales?
- annual. Each sale is scheduled and advertised in advance, so check the county's tax deed calendar for the next posted date.
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 county office before you bid.
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