Dunn County, WI tax sales
Tax Sale Atlas maps the Dunn County, WI tax sale, one of 2,862 counties in 36 states. Wisconsin sells the deed itself, so no statutory investor interest rate applies. Sale office, calendar and list locations read from the county’s own official pages on Sep 11, 2026.
How tax deed sales work in Dunn County, seat of Menomonie: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
New to tax sales? Read how Wisconsin tax sales work or look terms up in the glossary.
- Next sale
- No fixed sale date and no auction day.
- Format
- In person
- Registration
- No bidder registration and no bidder number.
- County office
- (715) 232-3996
On this page
How Dunn County sells delinquent taxes
No tax lien certificate sale
Wisconsin counties sell no tax lien certificates to investors. Under s. 74.57(1) the county treasurer issues the tax certificate to the county itself, and s. 74.57(3) states that the county may not sell, assign, or otherwise transfer it. The section carries two carve-outs, and neither admits a bidder: a county may sell its right to receive tax certificate revenues under s. 74.635, which is a payment stream rather than a lien, and the county treasurer must reissue certificates to a city acting under s. 74.87 that has paid the delinquent taxes under an agreement made under s. 74.83.
Tax deed sale
- Run by
- Dunn County Office of Corporation Counsel, with bids reviewed and awarded by the Dunn County Planning, Resources and Development Committee
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- No fixed sale date and no auction day.
- Registration
- No bidder registration and no bidder number.
When it runs
Registration and deposit
No bidder registration and no bidder number. The county states there is no registration required for bidding on properties. What matters instead is the bid packet. Bids must be submitted on the official Dunn County Bid Sheet and Purchase Agreement, unaltered, fully completed and signed, with a separate bid sheet for each parcel. Seal the bid in an envelope addressed to Dunn County Corporation Counsel Office, Attn: Real Estate Bid, 3001 US Hwy 12 East, Suite 263, Menomonie, WI 54751; bids that miss that requirement may be rejected. Bidders must be at least 18. Anyone bidding through an attorney or agent must attach an authenticated power of attorney or other proof of authority. The county will not accept a bid from anyone carrying delinquent taxes, interest, penalty, special assessments or special charges on any other tax parcel anywhere in Wisconsin. The county's ongoing sale notice calls for a deposit of $50 or 10 percent of the bid, whichever is greater, by cashier's check or money order payable to Dunn County, with no personal checks and deposits returned to unsuccessful bidders; ask the Office of Corporation Counsel for the deposit terms in force before you mail anything. Bids on newly listed parcels must meet or exceed the appraised value shown for the parcel or they are rejected and returned. On the ongoing list a lower bid will be considered, but the committee is free to refuse it. No financing or sale-of-other-property contingencies are allowed and no broker commission is paid. Successful bidders pay the balance within 30 days of acceptance by cashier's check or bank draft, plus a $30 recording fee by personal check payable to Register of Deeds.
Sale format and venue
Dunn County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Dunn 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.
Get the advertised list
Use Tax-Foreclosed Property Sales, newly listed sealed-bid parcels and the ongoing open-bid list for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.Register to bid
Sale day
No fixed sale date and no auction day. 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 Dunn County Office of Corporation Counsel, with bids reviewed and awarded by the Dunn County Planning, Resources and Development Committee as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Dunn County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from Tax-Foreclosed Property Sales, newly listed sealed-bid parcels and the ongoing open-bid list. Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
No bidder registration and no bidder number. The county states there is no registration required for bidding on properties. What matters instead is the bid packet. Bids must be submitted on the official Dunn County Bid Sheet and Purchase Agreement, unaltered, fully completed and signed, with a separate bid sheet for each parcel. Seal the bid in an envelope addressed to Dunn County Corporation Counsel Office, Attn: Real Estate Bid, 3001 US Hwy 12 East, Suite 263, Menomonie, WI 54751; bids that miss that requirement may be rejected. Bidders must be at least 18. Anyone bidding through an attorney or agent must attach an authenticated power of attorney or other proof of authority. The county will not accept a bid from anyone carrying delinquent taxes, interest, penalty, special assessments or special charges on any other tax parcel anywhere in Wisconsin. The county's ongoing sale notice calls for a deposit of $50 or 10 percent of the bid, whichever is greater, by cashier's check or money order payable to Dunn County, with no personal checks and deposits returned to unsuccessful bidders; ask the Office of Corporation Counsel for the deposit terms in force before you mail anything. Bids on newly listed parcels must meet or exceed the appraised value shown for the parcel or they are rejected and returned. On the ongoing list a lower bid will be considered, but the committee is free to refuse it. No financing or sale-of-other-property contingencies are allowed and no broker commission is paid. Successful bidders pay the balance within 30 days of acceptance by cashier's check or bank draft, plus a $30 recording fee by personal check payable to Register of Deeds.
Check the state rules that change the bid
Read the Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin before you price the title work.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
Wisconsin has no statewide over-the-counter program at a fixed statutory price, and no state-held certificate to assign. County inventory is what stays for sale. The county board may sell its tax-deeded lands on whatever terms it sets, may hire licensed real estate brokers on commission, and may advertise on a multiple listing service, so a county parcel can sit on the open market between sales. Once a parcel has been advertised and not sold, the county may sell it for any amount after a further class 1 notice, subject to board or committee approval below the appraised value. Ask the county treasurer or the land committee for the current list of unsold county-owned parcels and make a written offer. Approval still runs through the board or its committee, so nothing closes on the day.
New to this path? Read how over-the-counter purchases work. Every state has its own name for what goes unsold, so check what Wisconsin calls its leftover tax-sale inventory.
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County offices
Tax sale office
County notes
- Three offices touch a Dunn County land sale. The Treasurer takes the tax deed on delinquent property, the Office of Corporation Counsel markets the parcels and receives the bids at (715) 232-3996, and the Planning, Resources and Development Committee accepts or rejects each bid at a later meeting. Nothing closes on the spot.
- Reach the Treasurer at (715) 232-3789 or 3001 US Highway 12 E, Suite 102A, Menomonie, WI 54751 for delinquent tax balances and foreclosure status. Reach Corporation Counsel at Suite 263 in the same building for the sale list, bid forms and terms.
- Dunn County holds no auction of any kind for tax-foreclosed land, online or in person. Bids are written, sealed and either mailed or dropped off. Treat any third-party site advertising a Dunn County tax auction with caution and confirm against the county's own Tax-Foreclosed Property Sales page.
- The parcel list lives on the county website under Tax-Foreclosed Property Sales, split into Newly Listed Properties for sealed-bid offerings and Ongoing Sales for open-bid leftovers. Copies are also available from the Office of Corporation Counsel, which will mail a list at no charge. Legal notices run in the county's official newspaper, named on county sale materials as the Colfax Messenger and the Dunn County News.
- A bid from anyone with delinquent taxes, interest, penalty, special assessments or special charges on any other parcel in Wisconsin will not be accepted. Clear those balances statewide before bidding here.
- Restrictions and covenants that run with the land survive a Wisconsin tax deed, so read the chain of title before you bid. The county provides no survey and warrants no title.
- If a successful bidder misses the 30-day payment deadline, approval of the sale lapses and the parcel returns to the list as if it had never been bid on.
Wisconsin rules
- Redemption
- The redemption right in Wisconsin runs against the county, and it is over before an investor sees the parcel. Issuance of the tax certificate on September 1 starts the clock. Two years later the county may take its deed or start a foreclosure, but the right to redeem does not end on that anniversary: under s. 75.01(1)(b) any person may redeem at any time before the tax deed is presented to the register of deeds and accepted for record, and a redemption before recording makes the deed void as to the land redeemed. On the in rem route under s. 75.521 the county publishes a notice fixing the last day for redemption at least 8 weeks after first publication, and an interested party may instead serve a verified answer within 30 days after that date on the three grounds the section allows. Once the deed is recorded or judgment is entered, redemption is finished. Between the two, at least 6 and not more than 10 months before the redemption period expires, the county treasurer must publish a class 2 notice listing every unredeemed parcel with its amount due and the last day of redemption, which is the public list an investor can watch. Two things can still pull a parcel off a sale list afterward: the minor and incompetency extension in s. 75.03, and the former owner repurchase right in s. 75.35(3).
- Deed deposit
- Wisconsin fixes no statutory deposit. Section 75.35(2)(am) lets the county board sell its tax-deeded lands in whatever manner and on whatever terms it sets by ordinance or resolution, and s. 75.35(2)(d) lets the board delegate that power to a committee, an officer or a department, or hire licensed real estate brokers on commission. Deposits are county rules, not state law. St. Croix County requires a 10 percent deposit by cashier's check or money order with each sealed bid and rejects personal checks. Counties selling through the statewide online auctioneer instead take payment by certified check or wire transfer under the platform's terms. Read the county's own bid packet before you bid.
- Homestead deeds
- Owner-occupied homes are treated differently, and the difference can pull a parcel off the list. For single-family, owner-occupied properties the county board must by ordinance give the former owner who lost title, or that person's heirs or beneficiaries, the right to buy the land back before it is sold, on paying the costs and expenses under s. 75.36(3)(a), the property taxes that would have been owed for the year of the purchase, and enough to satisfy any other liens at the time of foreclosure plus the county's repurchase costs. The board may extend the same right to other property types at its option. A sale under that ordinance is exempt from s. 75.69 altogether, so it never reaches a public bid. Counties set their own window. Dane County gives the former owner 60 days from delivery of the treasurer's certified-mail notice. Treat an owner-occupied house on a Wisconsin land sale list as provisional until the repurchase window has closed.
- Surplus proceeds
- Wisconsin returns the surplus to the former owner, and the county treasurer has to go find them. On taking the tax deed the treasurer must notify the former owner by registered or certified mail, at the mailing address on the tax bill, that the former owner may be entitled to a share of the proceeds of a future sale. When the county sells, the treasurer computes net proceeds by subtracting foreclosure, record-keeping, legal, advertising and title insurance costs, the actual maintenance, board-up, clean-up and demolition costs reasonably needed to sell, real estate agent or broker fees, and all unpaid general property taxes, interest, penalties, special assessments, special charges and special taxes. From the net proceeds the treasurer pays any managed forest withdrawal tax and fee, then the taxing jurisdictions' special assessments and special charges, prorated if the money runs short. Anything still remaining goes to the former owner, less any delinquent taxes, interest and penalties that person owes the county on other property. A payment unclaimed one year after mailing becomes unclaimed funds under s. 59.66(2), and no interest is paid on any of it.
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 Sep 11, 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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