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Cumberland County, TN tax sales

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

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

Next sale
No sale date is published on the county website.
County office
931-484-4731
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How Cumberland County sells delinquent taxes

No tax lien certificate sale

Tennessee counties enforce the tax lien through a delinquent tax suit and sell the property itself; no tax lien certificates are auctioned.

Tax deed sale

Run by
Clerk and Master, Cumberland County Chancery Court
Frequency
annual
Typical timing
No sale date is published on the county website.
Sale list
Delinquent Tax Properties list (Map, Group, Parcel, address, taxes owed, date added)
When it runs
No sale date is published on the county website. The county instead maintains a rolling inventory file whose current title is "DELINQUENT TAX PROPERTIES AS OF 08-14-2026", reissued under a new as-of date as properties are added or sold. The Clerk and Master's page lists office hours (Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm) but no auction calendar, so confirm the next Chancery Court sale date by phone.
Registration and deposit

For the county-owned inventory, a bidder completes the county's Blank Bid Sheet, headed "TAX DEED INFO SHEET", which collects the purchaser name as it will appear on the deed, entity name and type plus city and state of organization if the buyer is a corporation or LLC, address, phone, and the Map, Group and Parcel of the target property. The sheet computes Purchase Price as bid plus ad fee plus attorney's fees equals TOTAL. Bidders also sign the Disclosure Statement and Disclaimer, which records the Map, Group and Parcel. Per that disclosure, payment must be brought by cash or check for the registration process of the new deed at time of pick up, and the buyer is notified of the registration cost when the deed is ready. A bid may be pulled using the Delinquent Tax Property Bid Withdrawal Form, but any advertising fees paid to the county are non-refundable and withdrawal may result in the property being sold to another party. No online bidder registration portal is published. For the Chancery Court sale itself, contact the Clerk and Master directly.

Sale format and venue
Cumberland County publishes no online auction platform for its tax sales. The county was checked against the GovEase live auction county selector, which lists 19 Tennessee entries including Hamblen, Henry, Lawrence, Madison, Montgomery, Obion, Sullivan, Washington, Coffee, Hawkins, Decatur, Wayne and the City of Jackson. Cumberland County does not appear, so treat this county as an offline jurisdiction and do not send readers to a bidding portal. Two distinct channels exist and investors confuse them. First, the statutory redeemable deed sale: under Tenn. Code Ann. Title 67, Chapter 5, the Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court files the delinquent tax suit and conducts the sale, and a purchaser bidding above the clerk's ascertained debt takes a redeemable deed subject to the statutory redemption period running from entry of the order confirming the sale. Cumberland County posts no notice, date, or bidder packet for this sale on its website, so the Clerk and Master's office is the only reliable point of contact for it. Second, and the only channel the county actually documents online: a rolling bid program for delinquent tax property the county already holds, administered through the County Mayor's Office at 2 North Main Street, Suite 203, Crossville, with a body the county calls the County Delinquent Tax Committee. The Mayor's Office page carries four live documents: the current property list, the Blank Bid Sheet, the Disclosure Statement and Disclaimer, and the Bid Withdrawal Form. The list runs 19 pages and gives Map, Group, Parcel, street address, taxes owed, a location code, and a date added. Most entries carry the location code FFG and a date added of 4/1/2025 or "Before 4/1/2025", and the addresses are heavily concentrated in the Fairfield Glade area, so the inventory skews toward platted resort subdivision lots rather than improved homes. Buyers in that second channel should read the disclosure closely. It states that Tennessee law requires the county to issue a quit-claim deed and bars a deed with title warranties, that the deed conveys only whatever right, title, claim, or interest the county may have, that this does not guarantee marketable title, and that it may be difficult or impossible to obtain title insurance, which a later buyer or a lender may require. The county also makes no representation about whether a parcel will percolate or accommodate a subsurface sewage disposal system, which is the decisive question on unimproved lots of this kind. The disclosure states that neither the Mayor's office nor the County Delinquent Tax Committee can give legal advice, and directs bidders to an attorney or title company before placing a bid. The list URL embeds its as-of date, so it breaks whenever the county posts a refreshed file. The stable landing points are the Mayor's Office directory page and the Mayor's Office document category page, both of which link the current version.
Source: Cumberland County TN, Mayor's Office document category listing· Verified Aug 18, 2026

Cumberland County tax sale list and auction calendar

For Cumberland 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.

  1. Get the advertised list

    Use Delinquent Tax Properties list (Map, Group, Parcel, address, taxes owed, date added) for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.

  2. Register to bid

    Ask the county office how and when to register; many counties close registration days or weeks before the sale.

  3. Sale day

    No sale date is published on the county website. The auction platform is still being verified. Confirm the next sale date and registration window with the county before you bid.

  4. Confirm with the office

    If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use Clerk and Master, Cumberland County Chancery Court as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.

Before you bid in Cumberland County

  1. Start with the live sale list

    Pull the current advertised parcels from Delinquent Tax Properties list (Map, Group, Parcel, address, taxes owed, date added). Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.

  2. Confirm registration and deposit

    For the county-owned inventory, a bidder completes the county's Blank Bid Sheet, headed "TAX DEED INFO SHEET", which collects the purchaser name as it will appear on the deed, entity name and type plus city and state of organization if the buyer is a corporation or LLC, address, phone, and the Map, Group and Parcel of the target property. The sheet computes Purchase Price as bid plus ad fee plus attorney's fees equals TOTAL. Bidders also sign the Disclosure Statement and Disclaimer, which records the Map, Group and Parcel. Per that disclosure, payment must be brought by cash or check for the registration process of the new deed at time of pick up, and the buyer is notified of the registration cost when the deed is ready. A bid may be pulled using the Delinquent Tax Property Bid Withdrawal Form, but any advertising fees paid to the county are non-refundable and withdrawal may result in the property being sold to another party. No online bidder registration portal is published. For the Chancery Court sale itself, contact the Clerk and Master directly.

  3. Check the state rules that change the bid

    Read the Tennessee due-diligence checklist before bidding. Redemption, liens that survive a tax deed, title cleanup, and payment deadlines can change what a parcel is worth.

  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

Parcels struck to the county at the tax sale can be bought from the county afterward. Each county mayor must publish a list of county-held parcels by July 1 every year, and any person may file a written offer for one. The county advertises the offer, competing bidders have ten days to raise it by 10 percent or more, and the highest offer wins, sometimes through an online resale. A parcel bought before the redemption period expires stays subject to redemption. Ask the county mayor's office or the clerk and master where the current list is posted.

County-held parcel listings are published per county under Tenn. Code Ann. 67-5-2511; find the current list on the county's website or newspaper of record

New to this path? Read how over-the-counter purchases work.

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County offices

Tax sale office

Cumberland County Clerk and Master, Chancery Court (Ben Tollett, Clerk and Master)

931-484-4731

60 Justice Center Dr, Suite 226, Crossville, TN 38555

Official website

County notes

  • Clerk and Master contact verified on the county's own directory page: Ben Tollett, Clerk and Master, 931-484-4731, [email protected], 60 Justice Center Dr, Suite 226, Crossville, TN 38555, open Monday to Friday 8:00 am to 4:00 pm.
  • County Mayor's Office (Allen Foster) is the office that publishes the delinquent tax property list and bid forms: 931-484-6165, [email protected], 2 North Main Street, Suite 203, Crossville, TN 38555. The page carries a construction notice stating the Mayor's Office is still operating at 2 North Main Street with entry at the side door on the north side of the building facing the gazebo, and that the elevator is out of service.
  • County Trustee (Kim Wyatt) handles current property tax collection and relief programs, not the sale: 931-484-5730, [email protected], 2 S Main St, Suite 111, Crossville, TN 38555. The Trustee page links out to the statewide tnproptax.com payment portal and the Tennessee Comptroller tax relief page.
  • The county website's own search returns no results for either "tax sale" or "delinquent". The delinquent tax material is reachable only through the top navigation item "Get a List of Delinquent Tax Properties", which points at the Mayor's Office directory page rather than a dedicated sale page.
  • The Blank Bid Sheet is a scanned image with no embedded text layer. Its content was recovered by optical character recognition and reads "TAX DEED INFO SHEET" with fields for purchaser name as it will appear on the deed, entity name, entity type, city and state of organization, address, phone, Map, Group, Parcel, and a Purchase Price line computing bid plus ad fee plus attorney's fees equals TOTAL.
  • Cumberland County is absent from the GovEase live auction county selector, which was fetched and parsed in full (318 options, 19 of them Tennessee). This is a verified negative, not an assumption, and it is the basis for recording no auction platform.
  • data_quality is medium rather than high: a county-specific delinquent tax property sale channel with a live list and complete bid paperwork was located, but no auction platform and no sale date exist for the Clerk and Master's statutory redeemable deed sale.
  • The state courts directory at tncourts.gov is behind a JavaScript browser validation wall and could not be read, so no facts were taken from it.

Tennessee rules

Redemption
The right to redeem vests when the court enters the order confirming the sale and never runs longer than one year from that date. The court sets each parcel's period before the sale on a statutory scale: one year when the taxes were delinquent 5 years or less, 180 days when delinquent more than 5 but less than 8 years, 90 days when delinquent 8 years or more, and 30 days when the court finds the property vacant and abandoned. To redeem, an interested person files a motion in the same lawsuit and must first pay the clerk the full redemption amount; the purchaser then has 30 days after notice to ask the court for additional reimbursements. When the court declares the redemption complete, title divests from the purchaser and the clerk refunds the purchase money plus everything owed. During the redemption period the purchaser owes no duty to insure the parcel and is not liable for damage to it except from the purchaser's own intentional acts. Separately, a suit attacking the validity of the sale itself must normally be filed within one year of the confirmation order, with an absolute three-year outer limit.
Deed deposit
No statewide deposit percentage exists. The statute fixes the form of payment (cash, certified funds, cashier's check, money order, or ACH transfer) and each court sets its own payment terms. Davidson County takes cashier's checks only, Rutherford County requires payment by close of business the day after the sale, and counties selling through GovEase collect payment through the platform. Confirm the terms with the clerk and master that runs the sale before bidding.
Surplus proceeds
Sale proceeds pay the delinquent tax attorney, then court costs, then the taxing entities. Any excess is claimed by motion in the same case: remaining taxes are paid first, then lienholders in order of priority (pre-sale liens before post-sale liens), then the former owner. Filing the motion ends any remaining redemption period as to the movant. Excess proceeds nobody claims pass to the state under the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act.
Governing statute
Tenn. Code Ann. Title 67, Chapter 5, Parts 25-27

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 Cumberland County, Tennessee sell tax liens or tax deeds?

Tax deeds. Tennessee sells no tax lien certificates to investors; the county sells the property itself at a public tax sale.

How often does Cumberland County hold tax deed sales?

Cumberland County holds its tax deed sale once a year. No sale date is published on the county website. 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. Tennessee's redemption rule: Up to 1 year from entry of the order confirming the sale, tiered by how long the taxes were delinquent. Call the Clerk and Master, Cumberland County Chancery Court 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 Cumberland County tax sale list?

Cumberland County posts its tax sale list at cumberlandcountytn.gov. 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 18, 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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