Lanier County, GA tax sales
How tax lien certificate and tax deed sales work in Lanier County, seat of Lakeland: 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 Lanier County sells delinquent taxes
Tax certificate sale (lien)
Details are being verified for this county.
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Lanier County Tax Commissioner
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- Not published. No sale month, date, calendar, or "first Tuesday" language appears anywhere on the Lanier County Tax Commissioner page, the county Public Notices library, or the county site search. The Tax Commissioner page states only that the officer "is an elected Constitutional Officer responsible for collecting property taxes." Confirm the next sale date directly with the office at (229) 482-3795.
Registration and deposit
Not published. No bidder registration form, deposit rule, payment term, or registration deadline appears on any official Lanier County page reviewed. Contact the Tax Commissioner at (229) 482-3795 before a sale.
Lanier County is a small south Georgia county of roughly 9,900 residents with its county seat in Lakeland, and it publishes no tax sale page. Verification covered the county's official site at laniercountyboc.com (Tax Commissioner, Tax Assessor, Public Notices, and a site search for "tax sale" that returns "Nothing Found") plus the Lanier County Sheriff's Office site, which carries no levy or sale notices. No delinquent list, levy list, sale list, or excess funds list is posted online, so no list URL is reported. No online auction platform is named or linked on any official county page, so no platform or platform URL is reported here. Expect an in person outcry sale on the courthouse steps in Lakeland until the Tax Commissioner confirms otherwise. Georgia sells a redeemable tax deed rather than a lien certificate, subject to the 12 month right of redemption at a 20% premium under O.C.G.A. Title 48, Chapter 4, Article 3; that is state law, not a fact taken from a Lanier County page. Buyers should call the Tax Commissioner for the levy list, the sale date, and the advertising newspaper, and should watch the county legal organ for the required pre-sale advertisement.
County offices
Tax Collector (runs the certificate sale)
Notes for Lanier County
- Tax Commissioner is Rebecca S. Rampey. Office hours are listed as "M-F 8:00 -12:00 & 1:00 - 5:00", meaning the office closes over the lunch hour. Source: county_tc.
- The Tax Commissioner page describes only property tax collection and motor vehicle tag duties. It contains no levy, fi. fa., execution, tax sale, excess funds, or bidder language of any kind, and it links no online payment or tax sale portal.
- The Georgia Department of Revenue county property tax facts page for Lanier confirms laniercountyboc.com as the official site of record for the Tax Commissioner, Board of Commissioners, and Board of Tax Assessors, and states no Lanier specific tax sale or redemption procedure. Source: dor_lanier.
- The county Public Notices document library holds only millage rollback histories, meeting notices, park board notices, and a civil judgment procedures handout. No tax sale advertisement appears on either page of that library. Source: county_notices.
- A GovernmentWindow style tax payment subdomain could not be confirmed for Lanier. Every governmentwindow.com host tested returned HTTP 403 to scripted requests, including hosts unrelated to Lanier, so the 403 proves nothing about whether a Lanier portal exists. No such portal is linked from the Tax Commissioner page, so none is cited.
- Clerk of Superior Court, for recording the tax deed and searching fi. fa. filings: Patricia L. Bass, 56 W. Main St., Ste 5, Lakeland, GA 31635, phone (229) 482-3594, fax (229) 482-8333, hours 8:00am to 12:00pm and 1:00pm to 5:00pm Monday through Friday. Source: gsccca_clerk.
- Board of Tax Assessors, for parcel and valuation diligence rather than the sale: Chief Appraiser Jason Webrand, 56 W Main Street, Suite 2, Lakeland, GA 31635, phone 229-482-2090, fax 229-482-2105, email [email protected], open 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Monday through Friday. Parcel records are published at qpublic.net/ga/lanier/. Sources: county_assessor, qpublic_lanier.
- The Assessors office notes that the Board of Commissioners and Board of Assessors contracted Technical Appraisal Services of Georgia for a countywide revaluation of real property, the first full revaluation since 2007. Assessed values on Lanier parcels may move materially, so verify current values before bidding. Source: qpublic_lanier.
- Lanier County Sheriff's Office phone is 229-482-3545, email [email protected]. Its website publishes no sheriff sale, levy sale, or tax sale listings. Source: county_sheriff.
- Re-verification cadence should be high. Because no county page carries sale content, any timing, platform, or registration claim must be sourced from a dated phone call to the Tax Commissioner.
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 Lanier County, Georgia sell tax liens or tax deeds?
- Lanier County follows Georgia's redeemable deed state system.
How often does Lanier 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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