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Roberts County, SD tax sales

Tax Sale Atlas maps the Roberts County, SD tax sale, one of 3,131 counties in 51 states. South Dakota sells tax lien certificates paying up to 10%. Sale office, calendar and list locations read from state rules plus what the county publishes on Oct 6, 2026.

How tax lien and tax deed sales work in Roberts County, seat of Sisseton: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.

New to tax sales? Read how South Dakota tax sales work or look terms up in the glossary.

Next tax deed sale
No fixed date.
Format
In person
Registration
No registration.
County office
(605) 698-7245
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Roberts County Board of Commissioners, with sealed bids filed at the Roberts County Auditor's office. In person. annual

Record quality: medium. Last verified: 2026-10-06.

Notice of Sale on Surplus Property, Roberts County Auditor, February 17, 2026 (source accessed 2026-10-06)

Recorded reference information. Verify current sale conditions with the county. Read the full sale details.

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How Roberts County sells delinquent taxes

Tax certificate sale (lien)

In person
Run by
Roberts County Treasurer
Frequency
annual
Registration
No online bidding portal, bidder packet or advance registration form is published.
Next expected
on the third Monday in December, 2026 (window; exact date posts closer to the sale)
When it runs
The third Monday in December, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. at the Roberts County Courthouse in Sisseton, continued from day to day until every certificate has been offered. South Dakota fixes that date for every county, so Roberts County publishes no sale calendar of its own. Call the Treasurer at (605) 698-7245 in early December to confirm the room and to confirm that certificates will be offered to bidders at all.
Registration and deposit

No online bidding portal, bidder packet or advance registration form is published. Bidders come to the Treasurer's office in the Roberts County Courthouse, 411 2nd Ave. E., Suite 1A, Sisseton, and bid parcel by parcel as the Treasurer offers each certificate. Be ready to pay the full amount of taxes, interest and costs on anything you win, and call (605) 698-7245 first to confirm what the office needs from you and which forms of payment it accepts.

Sale format and venue
Bidding runs the interest rate down rather than the price up. The Treasurer offers each parcel in tax list order and sells to whoever pays the full amount of taxes, interest and costs due and names the lowest annual rate. A valid bid may not exceed ten percent a year and the statute sets no floor, so a contested parcel can be bid toward zero. The price is fixed at the delinquent amount, so there is no premium to bid and no overbid to lose. Two things to settle with the Treasurer before December: whether Roberts County has adopted the resolution that lets it sell certificates at all, and whether the county holds certificates it can assign, which it may do once a buyer pays every tax due on the parcel including the amount the certificate was bid off for. The sale notice and parcel list do not appear on the county website. They run in the Sisseton Courier and the Rosholt Review.
Source: S.D. Codified Laws 10-23-7, Time and place of annual sale, adjournment from day to day, all taxable property subject to sale except certain homesteads· Verified Oct 6, 2026

Tax deed sale

In person
Run by
Roberts County Board of Commissioners, with sealed bids filed at the Roberts County Auditor's office
Frequency
annual
Typical timing
No fixed date.
Registration
No registration.
Sale list
Roberts County public notices, where the Auditor posts notices of sale on surplus property
When it runs
No fixed date. Property the county owns is declared surplus and advertised parcel by parcel, with bids due at the Auditor's office by a stated morning hour on a commission meeting Tuesday and opened that day. The county is taking several properties for delinquent taxes, and in September 2026 the commissioners were reminded they need appraisals for that property, the step that comes before a sale notice. Watch the Auditor's public notices page and the official newspapers.
Registration and deposit

No registration. Put the bid in an envelope marked with the record number, written in whole dollars, with a signed personal check from the bidder's own account or a bank or cashier's check for ten percent of the bid, payable to Roberts County, South Dakota. Post-dated or altered checks are not accepted. Auditor's office: 411 2nd Ave. E., Suite 1B, Sisseton, (605) 698-7336.

Sale format and venue
Title passes by quitclaim deed with no warranties expressed or implied, so price each parcel on your own title work. Bids are opened and read aloud at the commission meeting held the same morning the bids are due. Sealed bid at the Roberts County Auditor's office.
Source: Notice of Sale on Surplus Property, Roberts County Auditor, February 17, 2026· Verified Oct 6, 2026

Roberts County tax sale list and auction calendar

For Roberts 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. If the parcels on this list are vacant land rather than houses, what buying land at a tax sale hands you is the place to start.

  1. Confirm the advertised parcel list

    Use Roberts County public notices, where the Auditor posts notices of sale on surplus property as a starting reference. Check which sale or list it covers; a Lands Available or office information page is separate from an auction parcel list. Ask the sale office for the advertised parcels for the auction you plan to attend.

  2. Register to bid

    No registration. Full requirements are in the sale card above.

  3. Sale day

    No fixed date. The sale is live and in person; there is no online bidding platform. Confirm the venue and hour with the Roberts County Board of Commissioners before you go.

  4. Confirm with the office

    If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use the Roberts County Board of Commissioners as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.

Before you bid in Roberts County

  1. Confirm the parcel list before pricing

    Open Roberts County public notices, where the Auditor posts notices of sale on surplus property. Confirm whether this reference contains the auction parcels or covers a different list. Get the advertised parcel list from the county before you price a bid, and recheck it before the sale.

  2. Confirm registration and deposit

    No registration. Put the bid in an envelope marked with the record number, written in whole dollars, with a signed personal check from the bidder's own account or a bank or cashier's check for ten percent of the bid, payable to Roberts County, South Dakota. Post-dated or altered checks are not accepted. Auditor's office: 411 2nd Ave. E., Suite 1B, Sisseton, (605) 698-7336.

  3. Check the state rules that change the bid

    Read the South Dakota due-diligence checklist before bidding. Redemption, liens that survive a tax deed, title cleanup, and payment deadlines can change what a parcel is worth. Which liens survive is state law, so read what survives a tax deed in South Dakota before you price the title work.

  4. 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

Three routes exist and each runs through a county office. A certificate that stayed unsold for want of bidders must be sold at private sale at the treasurer's office to any person who pays the taxes, penalty and costs due. A person may also buy the county's interest in a certificate the treasurer bid off, by paying the taxes, penalty, interest and costs of sale and transfer plus every unpaid and subsequent tax, after which the treasurer assigns the certificate and the buyer holds the rights of an original purchaser. Both routes are closed in a county whose commissioners have not waived SDCL 10-23-28.1. Separately, tax deed property the county offered that drew no bid may be sold at private sale within twelve months for not less than ninety percent of the appraised value, without further publication or appraisal. Ask the county treasurer about certificates and the county auditor about unsold deeded parcels.

New to this path? Read how over-the-counter certificates work. Every state has its own name for what goes unsold, so check what South Dakota calls its leftover tax-sale inventory.

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County offices

Tax Collector (runs the certificate sale)

Roberts County Treasurer

(605) 698-7245

411 2nd Ave. E., Suite 1A, Sisseton, SD 57262

Official website

County notes

  • Treasurer Mark Moen runs the December tax certificate sale from the courthouse at 411 2nd Ave. E., Suite 1A, Sisseton, SD 57262, at (605) 698-7245. The office is open 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Auditor Kristi Fritz, in Suite 1B at (605) 698-7336, handles the county's legal notices and its sales of property the county already owns.
  • Ask the Treasurer whether Roberts County has waived the statutory bar before planning around a December sale. South Dakota forbids a county to sell any tax certificate unless its county commissioners have adopted a resolution waiving that prohibition, and Roberts County has published no such resolution. Without a waiver the Treasurer still advertises and still holds the December sale, then bids every certificate off in the county's own name, and nothing changes hands to an outside buyer.
  • Roberts County is working the tax deed path. The Treasurer explained the process of taking property for delinquent taxes by tax deed to the commissioners in November 2025, notices of intent to take tax deeds went out on seven properties in spring 2026, and in September 2026 the State's Attorney reminded the commissioners they need appraisals for the property taken for delinquent taxes, the step before the county advertises it for sale.
  • Property the county ends up owning is resold by sealed bid, not at a live auction. The Auditor publishes a notice of sale on surplus property naming the parcels, bids are received at the Auditor's office by a stated hour on a Tuesday morning, and they are opened and read aloud at that day's commission meeting. Each bid goes in a marked envelope, written in whole dollars, with a personal, bank or cashier's check for ten percent of the amount bid made out to Roberts County. Title passes by quitclaim deed with no warranties expressed or implied, so price the parcel on your own title work.
  • Roberts County posts no delinquent tax list or certificate sale notice on its website. Its official newspapers for legal notices are the Sisseton Courier and the Rosholt Review, with the Grant County Review used when needed, and that is where the sale notice and parcel list run.
  • A South Dakota certificate is a route to being repaid with interest rather than to keeping land cheaply. Anyone other than a county who takes a tax deed must offer the property at public auction within one year and return the surplus above what is owed to the prior owner.

South Dakota rules

Max interest rate
10% per year, bid down at auction
Minimum return
No statutory minimum; interest accrues at your bid rate
Redemption
There is no fixed redemption deadline that starts at the sale. SDCL 10-24-1 lets any person redeem at any time before a tax deed is issued. What sets the outer limit is the deed process: SDCL 10-25-1 bars the certificate holder from starting that process until three years after the certificate sale, and SDCL 10-25-8 keeps the right to redeem alive until sixty days after the affidavit of completed service of the notice of intention is filed with the treasurer. Missing that sixty-day window passes the owner's, mortgagee's and lienholder's interests to the certificate holder. After the deed is recorded, the former owner has one hundred eighty days to bring an action to recover possession or to avoid the deed, which is a limitation period rather than a further right to redeem.
Deed deposit
Chapter 6-13 sets no deposit for a cash sale. A buyer taking an installment contract must deposit the cash portion with the fiscal officer as soon as the bid is accepted, and the board can still decline to approve the sale, in which case the deposit is returned. A separate rule bars a bidder from the sale entirely: under SDCL 10-25-45 a county may refuse a bid from any person who is not current on all property taxes due within that county. Payment methods and any county-set deposit are county practice rather than statute, so confirm them with the county before bidding.
Surplus proceeds
The county first deducts the expenses of taking the tax deed and of the sale. What remains is prorated to the taxing districts on the levies for the most recent year included in the proceeds until all tax and interest is paid. Any surplus left after taxes, penalty, interest, county liens and other costs must be returned to the prior owner of record, and if that owner cannot be found within one hundred eighty days the surplus is transferred to the Unclaimed Property Division under SDCL chapter 43-41B. The same distribution binds a private buyer. SDCL 10-25-39.2, effective February 12, 2024, requires any person other than a county who acquires property by tax deed after being issued a tax certificate to offer that property at public auction under chapter 6-13 within one year of the deed, and entitles that seller only to compensation in the same manner as a redemption under SDCL 10-24-1. A South Dakota certificate is therefore a route to being paid what the certificate is worth, not a route to keeping the land.
Governing statute
SDCL Title 10, Chapter 10-23

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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Frequently asked questions

Does Roberts County, South Dakota sell tax liens or tax deeds?

Roberts County follows South Dakota's tax lien state system.

When is the Roberts County tax certificate sale?

The third Monday in December, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. at the Roberts County Courthouse in Sisseton, continued from day to day until every certificate has been offered. South Dakota fixes that date for every county, so Roberts County publishes no sale calendar of its own. Call the Treasurer at (605) 698-7245 in early December to confirm the room and to confirm that certificates will be offered to bidders at all. The sale is held in person. Always confirm the exact date with the County Treasurer before the sale.

How often does Roberts County hold tax deed sales?

Roberts County holds tax deed sales once a year. No fixed date. 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. South Dakota's redemption rule: Open until a tax deed issues; a deed cannot be sought until 3 years after the certificate sale, and redemption then runs until 60 days after completed service of the notice of intention. Call the Roberts County Board of Commissioners 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 Roberts County tax sale list?

The recorded official list reference is at robertscosd.gov. Check whether it covers auction parcels, office information or Lands Available, then obtain the advertised parcel list for the sale you plan to bid on. Confirm every parcel against the county's legal advertisement.

Verified Oct 6, 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 office that runs the sale before you bid.

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