Lauderdale County, TN tax sales
How tax deed sales work in Lauderdale County, seat of Ripley: 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 month or date is published online.
- Registration
- Registration and bidding procedures are not published online.
- County office
- (731) 635-1941
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How Lauderdale County sells delinquent taxes
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Lauderdale County Clerk and Master, Chancery Court (listed by the county as "Chancery Clerk & Master" and "Clerk & Master (Chancery)")
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- No sale month or date is published online.
- Registration
- Registration and bidding procedures are not published online.
When it runs
No sale month or date is published online. Neither county government site lists a delinquent tax sale schedule, notice, or past sale date, so timing must be confirmed directly with the Clerk and Master at (731) 635-1941.
Registration and deposit
Sale format and venue
Lauderdale County is one of the small Tennessee counties that publishes no tax sale page at all. The current official county site (lauderdaletn.com) has no chancery court, clerk and master, trustee, delinquent tax, or auction page anywhere in its navigation, and the county officials directory carries contact details only. The sale venue is therefore unresolved and is deliberately left blank: Lauderdale County does NOT appear on GovEase's published roster of participating Tennessee counties, so a GovEase sale should not be assumed, and no verified notice was found stating an in person courthouse sale either. Under Tennessee law the Clerk and Master files the delinquent tax suit and conducts the sale, the clerk bids the ascertained debt as the minimum, and a purchaser bidding above it takes a redeemable deed subject to the statutory redemption period running from entry of the order confirming the sale. Investors should call the Clerk and Master to obtain the sale date, the parcel list, and the bidding format.
Source: Lauderdale County TN Government, County Contacts page· Verified Aug 18, 2026
Lauderdale County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Lauderdale 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
A county sale-list URL is still being verified. Use the office and platform details on this page before relying on a copied list.Register to bid
Sale day
No sale month or date is published online. The auction platform is still being verified. Confirm the next sale date and registration window with the county before you bid.Confirm with the office
If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use Lauderdale County Clerk and Master, Chancery Court (listed by the county as "Chancery Clerk & Master" and "Clerk & Master (Chancery)") as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Lauderdale County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
The county sale-list URL is still being verified. Use the county office contacts below and confirm the advertised parcels directly before you price a bid.Confirm registration and deposit
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.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
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
County notes
- No county-specific tax sale page exists. The Clerk and Master has no dedicated website, and the official county site's full navigation (Elected Officials, County Contacts, Industry Recruitment, Municipalities, Community Events, MS River Overlook, Community Partners, County Documents, Utilities, Keep Lauderdale Beautiful, Contact Us) contains no chancery court, tax sale, or delinquent tax page.
- Sale venue is intentionally left blank. GovEase's Tennessee Rules of the Auction page lists its participating Tennessee counties (Carter, Chester, Anderson/Oak Ridge and Norris, Crockett, Gibson Humboldt, Gibson Trenton, Greene, Hamblen, Hardeman, Hawkins, Henry, Lawrence, Lincoln, Madison/Jackson, Maury, Montgomery, Rutherford/Murfreesboro, Stewart, Unicoi, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Weakley) and Lauderdale County is not among them.
- Research trap: web searches for "Lauderdale County tax sale GovEase" return Lauderdale County, MISSISSIPPI (Meridian), which does run an annual August land tax auction on GovEase. That is a different county and its facts must not be carried over to Tennessee.
- Two county domains exist and only one is current. lauderdaletn.com carries a 2026 copyright and the present officials (Minnie Stowe as Clerk and Master, Brian Kelley as Sheriff). lctngov.com is stale: it still shows Covid-19 navigation and former officials including Sandra Burnham as Clerk and Master and Steve Sanders as Sheriff. Do not cite lctngov.com for current facts.
- lauderdalecountytn.org is the Chamber of Commerce site but carries the most complete officials directory, including the courthouse street address used here for the Clerk and Master.
- The Clerk and Master's published email is [email protected], per the county contacts page. The County Trustee is Judy Conrad at (731) 635-0712, same courthouse address.
- TennesseeTrustee.org hosts a Lauderdale County property tax search with a "show only unpaid" filter, which surfaces delinquent parcels, but it is a Trustee lookup rather than a Clerk and Master sale list, and the page states its data was last updated October 7, 2020. It is not recorded as the sale list for that reason.
- tncourts.gov could not be fetched. Every request returned a browser validation interstitial rather than page content, so the state courts directory could not corroborate the Clerk and Master's mailing address.
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.
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 Lauderdale 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 Lauderdale County hold tax deed sales?
Lauderdale County holds its tax deed sale once a year. No sale month or date is published online. 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 Lauderdale County Clerk and Master, Chancery Court (listed by the county as "Chancery Clerk & Master" and "Clerk & Master (Chancery)") 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.
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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