Rockdale County, GA tax sales

County offices

County notes

• •The Property Tax Sales page links three data files: the Tax Sale Properties list for the October 6, 2026 sale (a searchable page with an .xlsx download), the Excess Funds List dated 08.20.26 (a scanned PDF), and the Delinquent Tax File dated 08.03.26 (a text file). The file URLs change each cycle, so link investors to the Property Tax Sales page rather than to a file.
• •The October 6, 2026 sale list is a genuine parcel-level table, not a scanned notice. Columns include Owner Name, Year, Bill Number, PID, Property Type, Original Bill Amount, Sum of Fees, Paid Amount, Current Due, Levy, Pending, Payment Plan, Paid Date, Batch Status, Batch Number, Officer, and itemized Admin, Advertisement, Title, Collect, FiFa, GED, and Mail amounts plus nine late-fee columns.
• •The delinquent tax file is a raw fixed-width data file with no header row and no formatting. It carries parcel ID, situs description, owner name and mailing address, and packed dollar fields. Useful for pipeline ingestion, unusable as a human-readable list.
• •The county legal organ is the Rockdale Citizen. Sale ads run in the legal ads section on Wednesdays for four weeks before a sale, alongside the property list the office posts on its own site.
• •The office lists two addresses: the Service Center at 1088 West Avenue for walk-in business and a mailing address at 1096 West Avenue, both in Conyers, GA 30012. Send tax sale correspondence to the mailing address.
• •Office hours are 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, and 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Wednesday. Fax is 770-278-8956 and the office also takes questions by text at 678-964-4712.
• •The procedures document Rockdale publishes is titled Non-Judicial Tax Sale Procedures, and the Property Tax Sales page points bidders to O.C.G.A. 48-3 and 48-4, so the advertised route is the Title 48, Chapter 4, Article 1 non-judicial tax sale with the Article 3 twelve-month redemption. The page describes no judicial in-rem (Article 5) program.
• •The Property Tax Sales page states "The Tax Deed, not the property, is sold to the highest bidder" and "We do not sell tax liens." Excess proceeds may go to superior court through an interpleader action under O.C.G.A. 48-4-5.
• •GTS's own 2026 tax sale schedule matches the October 6, 2026 sale: tax sale list due 07.20.2026, 20 day levy notice 08.19.2026, legal advertising 09.10.2026, 10 day notice 09.25.2026, sale date 10.06.2026. That calendar is a vendor-wide first-Tuesday schedule covering all GTS counties rather than a Rockdale-specific one, so it is corroboration only and the county page governs.
• •GTS states payment terms slightly more loosely than the county does, describing a one to two hour window to return with funds, while Rockdale's own procedures say payment is due within one hour of the sale. Follow the county figure.
• •The county homepage (www.rockdalecountyga.gov) does not host tax sale content itself; it links the Tax Commissioner out to rockdaletaxoffice.org, which is where every sale fact lives.
• •The Property Tax Sales page carries the office's own disclaimer next to the procedures link: "NOT PROVIDED AS LEGAL ADVICE. For further questions, contact a licensed attorney." The procedures PDF repeats that the Tax Commissioner's Office does not give legal advice.

Georgia 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.O.C.G.A. 48-4-40, who may redeem and when (2024 Code of Georgia)O.C.G.A. 48-4-40Verified Jul 30, 2026

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.O.C.G.A. 48-4-1, Procedures for sales under tax levies and executions (2024 Code of Georgia)O.C.G.A. 48-4-1Verified Jul 30, 2026

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.O.C.G.A. 48-4-5, Payment of excess (2024 Code of Georgia)O.C.G.A. 48-4-5Verified Jul 30, 2026

Governing statute

O.C.G.A. Title 48, Chapter 4Official Code of Georgia Annotated, public access published for the Georgia General Assembly by the Georgia Code Revision CommissionO.C.G.A. Title 48, Chapter 4Verified Jul 25, 2026

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.

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