Troup County, GA tax sales
How tax lien certificate and tax deed sales work in Troup County, seat of LaGrange: 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 Troup County sells delinquent taxes
Tax certificate sale (lien)
Details are being verified for this county.
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Troup County Tax Commissioner's Office
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- First Tuesday of the month, on an as-needed basis several months per year. The county's own sale list is headed "TAX SALE----TROUP COUNTY NON-JUDICIAL" with "DATE OF SALE JULY 7, 2026", and the Tax Commissioner's notice is titled "Tax Sale List - July 7, 2026". Every sale date recorded in the county's excess funds file falls on a first Tuesday, including 4/1/2025, 6/3/2025, 7/1/2025, 8/5/2025, 9/2/2025, 10/7/2025, 6/2/2026 and 7/7/2026.
Registration and deposit
Troup County publishes no online bidder registration form, deposit schedule, or auction terms. The Tax Commissioner posts the sale list as a courtesy and directs questions to the office at (706) 883-1620. Confirm registration, sale time, and payment terms with the office before the sale date.
Troup County sells a redeemable tax deed under O.C.G.A. Title 48, Chapter 4, Article 1. The Tax Commissioner's list is expressly labeled "NON-JUDICIAL", so this is the levy and sale track under a tax execution, not the judicial in rem foreclosure track of Article 5. No online auction platform is named anywhere on the Tax Commissioner's website or on its sale documents, and the county lists no registration portal, so the sale appears to be conducted in person in the traditional Georgia manner. That in-person conclusion is an inference from the absence of any published platform, not a statement found on a county page, and the sale location and start time are not published online. The published notice states the list "is a courtesy list and is subject to change", so parcels can be pulled before the sale. The July 7, 2026 list carried 14 parcels with opening bids from roughly $1,584 to $3,740, a mix of houses and vacant lots in LaGrange, West Point, and Hogansville. The Tax Commissioner also holds and pays out tax sale overage: its excess funds file states that "Payment of Excess Funds is only made to the record owner of the property at time of tax sale or other parties having a lien holder interest in the property at the time of tax sale", checks are "made payable only to record owner(s) or lien holders", and the office does "not recognize a legal relationship of 'representation' with an Asset Recovery Firm or an individual with a Power of Attorney". The county FAQ describes the upstream process: a 30 day notice of intent precedes a fi. fa., the lien is recorded on the General Execution Docket and stays effective seven years, and delinquency can lead to "legal action (levy and advertisement of tax sale)".
County offices
Tax Collector (runs the certificate sale)
Notes for Troup County
- County seat is LaGrange. Parcels in recent sales sit in LaGrange, West Point, and Hogansville.
- Shane Frailey is the Tax Commissioner; office fax is (706) 883-1606 and hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
- The county government department page gives the office address as 100 Ridley Avenue, Suite 2300, LaGrange, GA 30240, while the Tax Commissioner's own letterhead and office page use 100 Ridley Avenue, LaGrange, GA 30240.
- Property tax bills are due November 15; penalties and interest accrue after that date.
- The sale list URL rotates: the notice page keeps a stable slug but is retitled each cycle, and the linked PDF is dated (currently /wp-content/uploads/2026/07/tax-sale-list-July-2026.pdf). Re-scrape the notice page rather than the PDF path.
- Excess funds and the escrow claim form live in a single dated PDF (Excess-Funds-Info-07.09.26.pdf) linked from the site navigation.
- No online auction platform, bidder registration page, or published sale time and location was found on any official Troup County source.
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 Troup County, Georgia sell tax liens or tax deeds?
- Troup County follows Georgia's redeemable deed state system.
How often does Troup 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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