Miami County, KS tax sales
How tax deed sales work in Miami County, seat of Paola: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
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- Next sale
- There is no fixed annual month.
- Format
- In person
- County office
- 913-294-2353
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How Miami County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Miami County Sheriff's Office, selling under an order of sale issued by the Miami County District Court. Miami County does not run the case in house: it retains the Wichita law firm Klenda Austerman LLC as outside tax foreclosure counsel to file and prosecute the foreclosure petition, publish the sale schedule and conduct the auction. The Miami County Treasurer holds the delinquent tax roll and takes redemption payment.
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- There is no fixed annual month.
When it runs
Registration and deposit
Every bidder must register in advance and hold a bidder number, and no bid is recognized without one. Registration requires a signed Bidder's Declaration attesting that you own no property in Miami County with delinquent taxes; anyone who does is barred from bidding. A winning bidder then signs a Purchaser's Declaration confirming they are not buying on behalf of, and are not related to, anyone holding a direct or indirect interest in that parcel, so bidding on a parent's or sibling's property is not allowed. Payment is due in full before you leave the sale, by cash, check or any combination of the two. Under the bidder terms the county's foreclosure counsel publishes for its Kansas sales, each parcel also carries a deed recording fee of $21 and a processing fee of $100 on top of the winning bid, and cash must be exact because no change is given and any overage is added to the purchase price. Confirm the current figures in the published sale notice. Bids are final once the auctioneer closes them, and a buyer who fails to pay can be ordered by the court to honor the bid and barred from future sales.
Sale format and venue
Miami County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Miami 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 Kansas tax foreclosure sale schedule and parcel petitions for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.Register to bid
Ask the county office how and when to register; many counties close registration days or weeks before the sale.Sale day
There is no fixed annual month. 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 Miami County Sheriff's Office, selling under an order of sale issued by the Miami County District Court. Miami County does not run the case in house: it retains the Wichita law firm Klenda Austerman LLC as outside tax foreclosure counsel to file and prosecute the foreclosure petition, publish the sale schedule and conduct the auction. The Miami County Treasurer holds the delinquent tax roll and takes redemption payment. as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Miami County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from Kansas tax foreclosure sale schedule and parcel petitions. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
Every bidder must register in advance and hold a bidder number, and no bid is recognized without one. Registration requires a signed Bidder's Declaration attesting that you own no property in Miami County with delinquent taxes; anyone who does is barred from bidding. A winning bidder then signs a Purchaser's Declaration confirming they are not buying on behalf of, and are not related to, anyone holding a direct or indirect interest in that parcel, so bidding on a parent's or sibling's property is not allowed. Payment is due in full before you leave the sale, by cash, check or any combination of the two. Under the bidder terms the county's foreclosure counsel publishes for its Kansas sales, each parcel also carries a deed recording fee of $21 and a processing fee of $100 on top of the winning bid, and cash must be exact because no change is given and any overage is added to the purchase price. Confirm the current figures in the published sale notice. Bids are final once the auctioneer closes them, and a buyer who fails to pay can be ordered by the court to honor the bid and barred from future sales.
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
- Miami County does not run its tax foreclosure sale from a county department. Klenda Austerman LLC, 1600 Epic Center, 301 N. Main, Wichita, KS 67202, 316-267-0331, is the county's outside tax foreclosure counsel and publishes both the sale schedule and the petitions that list the parcels. Start there rather than on the county site.
- The firm's schedule shows no Miami County case on file, and the county states it will not hold a tax sale in 2026. Watch the schedule page for a new filing, because parcels go to sheriff's sale roughly two to six months after the petition is filed and no separate notice is mailed to the public.
- The operative notice is the published sale bill. It runs once a week for three consecutive weeks in The Miami County Republic, the county's newspaper of record, beginning about a month before the auction, and it carries the date, time and location. The Kansas Press Association archive at kansaspublicnotices.com is searchable by county and by newspaper and is a second place to watch for it.
- Call the Miami County Treasurer at 913-294-2353 for the current payoff on a parcel. The amount printed on the petition is calculated as of the filing date and keeps accruing interest, so it understates what is owed by sale day. At this stage the Treasurer may decline a personal check, so expect to pay by cash, certified check, cashier's check, money order or credit card.
- Miami County lists a County Counselor at 913-294-3914 and a separate County Attorney at 913-294-3181, both at the Administration Building, 201 South Pearl, Paola. For sale day logistics the Sheriff's Office is at 913-294-3232, 209 S. Pearl Street, Paola.
- Because neither the county nor its foreclosure counsel supplies anything about a property beyond its legal description, all pre-bid due diligence falls on the buyer. The County Appraiser's Office holds the valuation and property record, the Register of Deeds holds easements and restrictive covenants, and the city or county holds zoning and special assessment history.
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
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Verified Aug 24, 2026 against official county and state sources.
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