Anderson County, KS tax sales
How tax deed sales work in Anderson County, seat of Garnett: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
New to tax sales? Read how Kansas tax sales work or look terms up in the glossary.
- Next sale
- No sale is currently scheduled.
- Format
- In person
- Registration
- Registration is in person on the day of the sale.
- County office
- 785-448-5824
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How Anderson County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Anderson County Treasurer
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- No sale is currently scheduled.
- Registration
- Registration is in person on the day of the sale.
- Sale list
- Tax Sale Schedule
When it runs
No sale is currently scheduled. The county's Tax Sale Schedule page states "Next Tax Sale Pending: NO DATE HAS BEEN SET" and says the page will be updated with new listings once a date is set. The most recent sale ran on Monday, March 30, 2026 at 1:30 p.m., so watch that page for the next announcement.
Registration and deposit
Sale format and venue
Anderson County sells at a live auction, not through an online bidding site, and there is no bidding platform to sign up for in advance. The last sale was held at the County Extension Office at 411 S Oak St in Garnett rather than at the courthouse. The county publishes each property as an item number paired with a Tax ID and a Parcel ID, which map to the state's online parcel search for acreage, valuation and legal description. Expect the list to shrink: owners can pay off before sale day and the county marked one item as removed on its last list. Tax sale questions go to outside counsel James R. Campbell, Coffman and Campbell LLC, 511 Neosho St., Burlington, KS 66839, (620) 364-3094, [email protected]. Because Kansas sells through a district court foreclosure, the owner's redemption window closes before the auction and the court must confirm the sale before the deed passes title, so budget for that gap between winning a bid and holding a recorded deed. In person, Anderson County Extension Office in Garnett
Source: Tax Sale Schedule, Anderson County Treasurer· Verified Aug 24, 2026
Anderson County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Anderson County tax sale 2026 searches, use the county-run sources below rather than a copied parcel list, and confirm the parcel, registration cutoff, deposit, and payment deadline against the county before you bid.
Get the advertised list
Use Tax Sale Schedule for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.Register to bid
Sale day
No sale is currently scheduled. The sale is live and in person; there is no online bidding platform. Confirm the venue and hour with the county office before you go.Confirm with the office
If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use Anderson County Treasurer as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Anderson County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from Tax Sale Schedule. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Check the state rules that change the bid
Read the Kansas due-diligence checklist before bidding. Redemption, liens that survive a tax deed, title cleanup, and payment deadlines can change what a parcel is worth.Set a walk-away number
Work out what the parcel is actually worth with the rural land value estimator, then turn it into a ceiling with the tax deed max-bid calculator.
Over-the-counter (leftover) purchases
unsold properties
Kansas counties sell no tax lien certificates and keep no over-the-counter certificate list. What a county can hold is real estate it bought in at its own sheriff's sale. The commissioners keep a record of every such parcel that is open to public inspection, and the board sells them at private or public sale for cash, at a price of at least the original judgment lien plus interest, the costs in the order of sale, and every subsequent tax and special assessment. Six months after the sale to the county is confirmed the board may reduce the price and take sealed bids after advertising for three consecutive weeks, or sell at public auction to the highest cash bidder. Ask the county clerk or county counselor for the current county-owned list, and check whether the county has a land bank.
New to this path? Read how over-the-counter purchases work.
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County offices
Tax sale office
County notes
- The Treasurer's office at the courthouse in Garnett holds the delinquent tax roll and takes payment, and it is the office that publishes the tax sale list. Phone 785-448-5824, open 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, though the courthouse doors lock at 4:30 p.m.
- Sale day is held away from the courthouse. The county used the Anderson County Extension Office at 411 S Oak St in Garnett for its last tax sale, and there is no online bidding option.
- Anderson County uses outside counsel to prosecute its tax foreclosures and to field bidder questions. Reach James R. Campbell at Coffman and Campbell LLC in Burlington at (620) 364-3094 before the sale rather than calling the courthouse for legal questions about a parcel.
- The County Attorney's office sits in the Anderson County Courthouse at 100 East 4th Street, PO Box 367, Garnett, KS 66032, (785) 448-5703.
- The Sheriff's Office is at 135 East 5th Avenue in Garnett, (785) 448-5678. Kansas tax foreclosure sales are conducted under a district court order of sale, and the sheriff's deed only issues after the court confirms the sale.
Kansas rules
- Redemption
- Kansas redemption has two stages, and both close before the auction. Stage one is K.S.A. 79-2401a: once the treasurer bids the parcel off to the county in September, the county holds it for three years for a homestead under section 9 of article 15 of the Kansas Constitution and for all real estate not described in K.S.A. 79-2401a(a), two years where the parcel was bid off for both delinquent taxes and special assessments, and one year for an abandoned building or structure and the land accommodating it, meaning one that has been unoccupied for at least a year with a failure to perform reasonable maintenance. During that window the owner pays the county treasurer directly. On the three-year track a PARTIAL redemption is allowed: paying the taxes for one or more years, starting with the earliest year the parcel was carried on the tax-sale book, plus interest at the K.S.A. 79-2004 rate, pushes back the date a foreclosure sale may be commenced by the number of years paid. The Johnson County paragraph applies the same partial payment to the most recent year instead of the earliest, and it does not carry the extension sentence. Stage two is K.S.A. 79-2803: after the petition is filed the treasurer may no longer take ordinary payments, but the owner or holder of record title, their heirs, devisees, executors, administrators, assigns, or any mortgagee or mortgagee's assigns may still redeem at any time BEFORE THE DAY OF SALE by filing an application to redeem with the clerk of the district court and paying the clerk a share of the costs, being whatever the court orders or, absent an order, 5 percent of the lien amount stated in the petition for that parcel plus any charges chargeable separately against it. The treasurer then computes the full taxes, charges, interest, and penalties, issues a redemption certificate in triplicate, and the sheriff strikes the parcel from the order of sale. Once the sale happens the right is gone. Kansas gives no post-sale redemption period and no right to buy the property back after the sheriff's deed. What exists after the sale is a twelve-month window under K.S.A. 79-2804b to open, vacate, modify, or set aside the judgment, the order of sale, or the sale. That is a title challenge, not redemption: it is available to parties attacking the proceedings, it requires grounds, and it does not let a former owner simply pay the taxes and take the parcel back.
- Deed deposit
- Kansas fixes no statewide deposit percentage and no statutory bidder registration. K.S.A. 79-2804 is silent on deposits, so the terms are whatever the sheriff publishes for that sale. The statute does require one payment at the auction itself: the register of deeds filing fee for the sheriff's deed is collected from the successful bidder at the time of sale and deposited with the register of deeds at recording. Confirm the county's accepted funds, any registration step, and the payment deadline before bidding, and expect certified funds.
- Surplus proceeds
- If a parcel sells for more than the judgment lien for taxes, interest, penalty, and charges plus its share of the costs, charges, and expenses of the proceedings and sale, the court orders the excess paid, upon due proof, to the owner or the party entitled to it. The court apportions costs across the parcels sold as soon as practicable after the sale, deducts the total costs from the gross proceeds, and equitably apportions the balance to each parcel that sold for more than its share. The clerk pays that balance to the county treasurer, who prorates it among the state, city, township, school district, and other taxing units in proportion to their interest in the lien, and cancels the taxes charged against the parcel. Tax liens on every parcel sold or redeemed in the action are satisfied and discharged of record.
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 Anderson County, Kansas sell tax liens or tax deeds?
Tax deeds. Kansas sells no tax lien certificates to investors; the county sells the property itself at a public tax sale.
How often does Anderson County hold tax deed sales?
Anderson County holds its tax deed sale once a year. No sale is currently scheduled. Each sale is scheduled and advertised in advance, so check the county's tax deed calendar for the next posted date.
I own a property in this sale. Can I stop it?
Often yes, by paying the overdue taxes, interest, and costs before the deadline. Kansas's redemption rule: Runs BEFORE the sale and ends on the day of the sheriff's sale. One, two, or three years from the county's September bid-off depending on the parcel, then a further right to redeem at the courthouse until the day of sale. Kansas has no redemption period after the sale. Call the Anderson County Treasurer as early as possible for your exact payoff and options; deadlines are strict. Free help: lawhelp.org lists legal aid programs, and consumerfinance.gov lists HUD-approved housing counselors.
Where can I find the Anderson County tax sale list?
Anderson County posts its tax sale list at andersoncountyks.org. Lists go up ahead of each sale and keep changing until the sale date, so confirm every parcel against the county's legal advertisement before you bid.
Verified Aug 24, 2026 against official county and state sources.
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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