Jeff Davis County, GA tax sales
How tax lien certificate and tax deed sales work in Jeff Davis County, seat of Hazlehurst: 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.
New here? Read how Georgia tax sales work, the difference between a lien and a deed, and redemption periods.
How Jeff Davis County sells delinquent taxes
Tax certificate sale (lien)
Details are being verified for this county.
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Jeff Davis County Tax Commissioner
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- Not published by the county. Neither the Tax Commissioner's official site nor the Jeff Davis County government site posts a sale date, sale notice, or advertisement as of July 2026, so no county-specific month or date could be verified. Georgia levy sales are cried on the first Tuesday of the month at the courthouse when a county schedules one, but no Jeff Davis County page states that mechanic for this county. Confirm the next sale date by calling the Tax Commissioner at (912) 375-6622.
Registration and deposit
Not published online. No bidder registration form, deposit rule, payment terms, or pre-registration deadline appears on any Jeff Davis County page. Contact the Tax Commissioner's office at (912) 375-6622 for the current terms.
Jeff Davis County publishes no tax sale page. The Tax Commissioner's official site is a Government Window portal whose working pages are the home page and a Search and Pay Taxes screen for current bills. That payment screen is not an auction platform, so no platform_url is reported. The site's template navigation carries a Tax Sales item, but that link returns HTTP 404, and probes of the usual alternates (tax_sale.html, taxsales.html, excess_funds.html, delinquent.html) also return 404. The county government site lists the Tax Commissioner only as a link out to that same portal and carries no legal notices, tax sale, or surplus property section; the Sheriff's Office page carries no levy or sale notices either. Treat this as an in person redeemable deed sale at the Jeff Davis County Courthouse in Hazlehurst, advertised in the county legal organ, until the Tax Commissioner confirms otherwise. Georgia sells a redeemable tax deed under O.C.G.A. Title 48, Chapter 4: the owner may redeem for 12 months at a 20 percent premium, so price that redemption into any bid. Request the levy list, the advertising newspaper, the sale date, and bidder terms directly from the office.
County offices
Tax Collector (runs the certificate sale)
Notes for Jeff Davis County
- The Tax Commissioner is Susan Kersey. Office hours posted on the official site are Monday through Friday, 8:00am to 4:30pm. Email listed on the site home page is [email protected]; the payment screen lists [email protected].
- No tax sale page exists. The Government Window template navigation includes a Tax Sales link, but https://jeffdaviscountyga.governmentwindow.com/tax-sales.html returns HTTP 404, as do index.html, general-information.html, property.html, quick-links.html, and news.html. Only start_alt.html and tax.html serve real Jeff Davis County content.
- No delinquent tax list, sale list, or excess funds list is published on any official county page.
- No online auction platform is named anywhere on the Tax Commissioner site or the county government site. The Government Window portal handles current bill lookup and card payments only.
- governmentwindow.com sits behind a Cloudflare challenge and returns HTTP 403 to direct automated fetches. The cited page content was read through a text extraction proxy of the same URLs. Any future re-verification needs a real browser session.
- The Jeff Davis County government site (jeffdaviscountyga.gov) links Tax Commissioner straight out to the Government Window portal and Tax Assessor to qPublic. Its sitemap.xml contains no department pages and the site publishes no legal notices or public notices section.
- The Sheriff's Office is at 15 Public Safety Drive, Hazlehurst, GA 31539, (912) 375-6600. Its page carries no levy or sale notices, so nothing confirms whether the Sheriff or the Tax Commissioner as ex-officio sheriff cries the sale in this county.
- The Board of Commissioners office is at 14 Jeff Davis St., Hazlehurst, GA 31539, (912) 375-6611. It posts no tax sale content.
- For pre-bid diligence, parcel, ownership, and assessment records are on the Jeff Davis County Tax Assessor's qPublic site at qpublic.net/ga/jeffdavis. The Assessors Office is open 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Monday through Friday and establishes values only; the site directs tax bill questions to the Tax Commissioner.
- The Georgia Department of Revenue county page for Jeff Davis confirms county ad valorem taxes are collected by the Tax Commissioner and points to jeffdaviscountyga.gov. It adds no county-specific sale detail.
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 Jeff Davis County, Georgia sell tax liens or tax deeds?
- Jeff Davis County follows Georgia's redeemable deed state system.
How often does Jeff Davis 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.
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