Chippewa County, MI tax sales
How tax deed sales work in Chippewa County, seat of Sault Ste. Marie: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
New to tax sales? Read how Michigan tax sales work or look terms up in the glossary.
- Format
- County site
- Registration
- Bidding is entirely online.
- County office
- (906) 635-6308
On this page
How Chippewa County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Chippewa County Treasurer
- Frequency
- annual
- Registration
- Bidding is entirely online.
When it runs
Registration and deposit
Bidding is entirely online. Create a free account at tax-sale.info; the operator verifies identity during registration against a government-issued ID. To bid you must provide a $1,000 pre-authorization on a major credit card, valid for 30 days, which acts as the security deposit rather than a charge. There is no separate registration fee. Advance bids may be placed up to 30 days before the sale and can be raised, lowered, or deleted; active bidding runs 10am to 7pm EDT on auction day and bids can only go up. Bidders who owe outstanding property taxes in the county are barred from bidding on that county's parcels. Winners are notified by email within an hour and must submit payment and notarized paperwork within 5 business days, by wire transfer, certified check, or credit/debit card with a 2.75% processing fee. The amount due adds a 10% buyer's premium, the current year summer taxes, and a $30 deed recording fee per lot. Recorded quitclaim deeds arrive roughly 6 weeks after the auction. Bidders without internet access are told to call 1-800-259-7470.
Sale format and venue
Chippewa County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Chippewa 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 Michigan Public Land Auction schedule and county catalogs for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.Register to bid
Sale day
Bidding runs on Michigan public land auction schedule and parcel lists; check posted sale dates, registration status, and bidding windows there.Confirm with the office
If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use Chippewa County Treasurer as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Chippewa County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from Michigan Public Land Auction schedule and county catalogs. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
Bidding is entirely online. Create a free account at tax-sale.info; the operator verifies identity during registration against a government-issued ID. To bid you must provide a $1,000 pre-authorization on a major credit card, valid for 30 days, which acts as the security deposit rather than a charge. There is no separate registration fee. Advance bids may be placed up to 30 days before the sale and can be raised, lowered, or deleted; active bidding runs 10am to 7pm EDT on auction day and bids can only go up. Bidders who owe outstanding property taxes in the county are barred from bidding on that county's parcels. Winners are notified by email within an hour and must submit payment and notarized paperwork within 5 business days, by wire transfer, certified check, or credit/debit card with a 2.75% processing fee. The amount due adds a 10% buyer's premium, the current year summer taxes, and a $30 deed recording fee per lot. Recorded quitclaim deeds arrive roughly 6 weeks after the auction. Bidders without internet access are told to call 1-800-259-7470.
Check the state rules that change the bid
Read the Michigan 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.
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County offices
Tax sale office
County notes
- The Chippewa County Treasurer is the foreclosing governmental unit and runs the annual tax foreclosure sale itself, so buyers deal with the county rather than the Michigan Department of Treasury.
- Sales are conducted online through Tax-Sale.info, the Michigan Public Land Auction platform operated by Title Check, LLC, which the Treasurer links from its own foreclosure page.
- Chippewa parcels are auctioned within the multi-county Eastern Upper Peninsula sale, held on August 14, 2026 with active bidding from 10am to 7pm EDT.
- Bidding requires a $1,000 credit card pre-authorization held for 30 days, and winners must pay in full within 5 business days.
- Totals include a 10% buyer's premium, the current year summer taxes, and a $30 per-lot deed recording fee, so budget above the hammer price.
- Buyers receive a recorded quitclaim deed roughly 6 weeks after the sale, and parcels are conveyed on the assessed legal description only.
Michigan rules
- Redemption
- Michigan has no post-sale redemption. The right to redeem runs during the forfeiture year and ends when the foreclosure judgment takes effect. Property forfeited to the county treasurer may be redeemed at any time on or before the March 31 immediately succeeding entry of a judgment foreclosing it, or within 21 days of entry in a contested case. On that date all redemption rights expire and fee simple title vests absolutely in the foreclosing governmental unit. Measured from the March 1 the taxes were returned as delinquent, that is about 25 months, and roughly three years from the year the taxes were levied. A circuit court may withhold a property from foreclosure for one year, or enter an order extending the redemption period as it finds equitable, if the owner is a minor heir, is incompetent, is without means of support, or is undergoing substantial financial hardship, so a parcel can drop off an auction list late.
- Deed deposit
- Michigan fixes no statutory deposit. The foreclosing governmental unit may adopt its own procedures governing the conduct of the sale and payment for conveyance, so registration deposits, refunds, and any bidding caps are set county by county and by the auction platform. On Tax-Sale.info, the platform most Michigan counties use, bidding requires a $1,000 pre-authorization hold on a major credit card rather than a cash deposit. Confirm the figure in the county's published auction terms before registering.
- Surplus proceeds
- A person who held a legal interest in the property immediately before the judgment of foreclosure became effective may claim the remaining proceeds. Remaining proceeds are the amount paid to the foreclosing governmental unit for the property, minus the minimum bid, minus other fees and expenses of forfeiture, foreclosure, sale, maintenance, repair, and remediation not already inside the minimum bid, minus a sale commission payable to the unit equal to 5 percent of the amount paid for the property. The claimant must submit a notice of intention on a Department of Treasury form by the July 1 immediately following the effective date of the foreclosure, then file a motion in the same circuit court proceeding in which the foreclosure judgment was effective, during the period beginning February 1 immediately after the property was sold and ending the following May 15. The court sets a hearing, decides the relative priority and value of each claimant's interest, and orders payment. Once the order enters, any further claim relating to that property is barred.
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 7, 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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