WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.439 --> 00:00:03.560 Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome. 2 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:07.120 It's time now for round two of our community connection today and we have our 3 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:11.480 friends in from Washington County. We have Melissa and Jennifer in with WOS today. 4 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:14.080 And first of all, Melissa, tell us a little bit about your 5 00:00:14.119 --> 00:00:17.239 office and what goes on there. Not the intricate decal, but you know 6 00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:19.719 the public side of it. You know what I'm saying. All right, 7 00:00:19.719 --> 00:00:24.239 Well, Washington County Treasure's Office, and what we do is we mail out 8 00:00:24.280 --> 00:00:30.879 the tax statements and then in return, we collect them. So that's that's 9 00:00:30.920 --> 00:00:34.920 our that's our biggest job that we do. You do transactions is what you 10 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:37.079 do? A lot of them? Do a lot of those, yes, 11 00:00:37.759 --> 00:00:40.719 come December, all right. And Jennifer even tell us what you do. 12 00:00:42.079 --> 00:00:53.000 I help manage the the mailing out and the preparing of the information. Oh 13 00:00:53.159 --> 00:00:59.799 logistics, Oh my gosh, that's rough on the noggin. I'd be lost, 14 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:03.840 and that stuff to keep her first deputy. So she she does a 15 00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:10.560 lot of managing the office and takes care of make sure everything gets done on 16 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:14.280 the timely manner. Oh my gosh, we got a big resale coming on. 17 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:18.439 And tell us a little about at the resale. Okay, So our 18 00:01:18.519 --> 00:01:23.200 resale we have that every year. It's it's by statutes. Every county across 19 00:01:23.239 --> 00:01:29.840 the state holds a June resale and it's always the second Monday in June at 20 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:36.200 nine o'clock. Um. This year, we have about sixty properties going to 21 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:41.920 our Salem. These properties that we're taking this year all have two thousand and 22 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:49.439 nineteen delinquent taxes all on them. So, um, there's a lot of 23 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:53.680 processing going on there isn't there. There's a lot of processing. You'll see 24 00:01:53.719 --> 00:01:59.359 around town. We'll have these big two foot by three foot signs that notify 25 00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:04.079 the surrounding owners that the property is going to be for sale. Those are 26 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:07.560 going up this week. The Sheriff's office is posting those for us. So 27 00:02:07.879 --> 00:02:10.879 how does this really take place? I mean, if you're delinquent on your 28 00:02:10.919 --> 00:02:15.759 taxes, and you know, if you're not paying any taxes, well you 29 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:17.479 know you're in trouble. And this is the penalty for not paying your taxes. 30 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:22.879 You lose your property, correct right, and so the property can be 31 00:02:22.919 --> 00:02:27.560 bought for the amount of the delinquent taxes. It is it's it's the amount 32 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:31.159 of the delinquent taxes or two thirds of the assessed value. Whatever is lower 33 00:02:31.400 --> 00:02:38.919 lower lower, actually lower in this usually you know, I can't think yeah, 34 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:43.680 yeah, And what about folks, how did it get to this point? 35 00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:46.599 I mean, are they notified? Imagine they get letter from me once 36 00:02:46.599 --> 00:02:50.000 in a while. Oh yeah, they've been notified three times every year, 37 00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:53.960 and then they've been notified at additional three times so far this year that the 38 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:58.520 sale is coming out. So so plenty of time has been put forth in 39 00:02:58.639 --> 00:03:01.000 order to get right with g BE a local government. We're more than happy 40 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:06.080 to work with them, and they contact us. The last thing you want 41 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:07.800 to do is this right? Oh absolutely, this is the last thing we 42 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:12.960 want to do the house or their property. And yeah, we don't want 43 00:03:12.960 --> 00:03:15.520 to end up owning it either. So oh yeah, that's a whole new 44 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:20.599 ball of action. It is, it is, that's a lot of So 45 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:23.719 what do the bidders need to know about this? With their big retail coming 46 00:03:23.800 --> 00:03:30.240 up? They can anytime. They can either come to our office if they 47 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:31.840 if they think they're going to want to come and bid, we ask them 48 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:38.280 to come and get preregistered. They can also do it online. Um, 49 00:03:38.439 --> 00:03:42.400 we have a form there where they can log on and get get signed up. 50 00:03:42.439 --> 00:03:46.560 We'll give everybody a bitter number. Um, this is just like an 51 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:52.960 auction. We hold it in the parking lot of our building there on Johnstone. 52 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:57.439 Yeah, and we just we start with the first one on the list 53 00:03:57.599 --> 00:04:01.840 and we just start auction auctioning them off. Now do people have to be 54 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:05.879 pre qualified to be a bidder? You don't have to be pre qualified because 55 00:04:05.919 --> 00:04:10.599 you have to have cash. Oh okay, well there you go. You 56 00:04:10.599 --> 00:04:13.159 can't show up to say about put it on the plastic. No, yeah, 57 00:04:13.199 --> 00:04:15.279 you got to come up with some green huh. They win the bid 58 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:18.279 and they step forward and they actually pay for the bid right there before we 59 00:04:18.319 --> 00:04:21.079 go into the next morn. No check, No plastic got to be green, 60 00:04:21.319 --> 00:04:24.680 right, can we do that? Well, we do it because the 61 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:30.160 statutes tell us to do it. But yes, and they get the deed 62 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:33.680 within just what three days I think wins here through a day the d's are 63 00:04:33.720 --> 00:04:38.120 filed. Yow, wow, that's pretty quick. Yeah, we start processing 64 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:44.279 everything that day. So wow, that's quite an interesting thing. Now, 65 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:47.560 do you have pictures when you go downstairs to the courthouse and hold this or 66 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:55.920 do you just announce the property? We announced the property by legal description because 67 00:04:55.920 --> 00:05:00.759 a lot of you know, sometimes somebody might think an address is something that 68 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:04.680 it's not if it gets turned around or whatever. So we do we do 69 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:09.519 it by legal description, and we do ask you know, if they're going 70 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:12.680 to bid on something, to make sure you've done your homework on it, 71 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:15.680 um, make sure you know what leans are against it, um. Make 72 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:20.160 sure you know that it is that property that you're wanting, you know, 73 00:05:20.319 --> 00:05:25.319 because we've had a lot of instances where somebody's bought something and then they went 74 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:29.160 and looked at it and you know, come to find out it's a burnt 75 00:05:29.160 --> 00:05:31.879 house or it's an empty lot when they thought it had something on it, 76 00:05:33.399 --> 00:05:42.839 So that that can be a bad situation you might have relived in right right 77 00:05:43.399 --> 00:05:46.240 now, is there any way that how did that get rectified? And somebody 78 00:05:46.279 --> 00:05:49.199 decides, oh, I've made a mistake. You can't do that, and 79 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:54.439 will you decide a final right right? Once the cell is over, it 80 00:05:54.560 --> 00:05:58.079 is a final deal, um, yeah, because that you know, at 81 00:05:58.079 --> 00:06:01.439 that time we start process seeing the paperwork, getting the deeds ready, getting 82 00:06:01.439 --> 00:06:06.120 them filed, so it's kind of a done deal once the once the sale 83 00:06:06.240 --> 00:06:11.639 ends. How often do we do this every year. Once a year's y're 84 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:15.279 always the second Monday in June. Always the second Monday is the way I 85 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:19.759 like Oklahoma because it doesn't change much, right, you know everything? Yes, 86 00:06:19.959 --> 00:06:24.920 yeah you can, you can bank on it. And you guys got 87 00:06:24.920 --> 00:06:28.439 to really put in a little bit of homework hours, I guess to get 88 00:06:28.439 --> 00:06:30.160 this ready, don't you. There's a lot of research that goes in. 89 00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:34.079 You have to look up the people and the legal descriptions and see what leans 90 00:06:34.120 --> 00:06:39.519 are on it. And then we try to we have to figure out where 91 00:06:39.519 --> 00:06:44.199 it's located so that the sheriff's office can post the signs. Um. So 92 00:06:44.319 --> 00:06:48.839 that's a big dual. Oh yeah, So so the sheriff's office is one 93 00:06:48.920 --> 00:06:51.639 going out there, you know, acting like the real tour a little bit. 94 00:06:51.720 --> 00:06:56.720 Yeah, they get to go out and host the signs. God's going, 95 00:06:56.839 --> 00:07:03.839 yeah, you hear that. But what happens Let's say you got a 96 00:07:03.879 --> 00:07:08.560 deal that folks just can't refuse, but they do, they refuse it anyway, 97 00:07:08.680 --> 00:07:13.040 what happens to the unsold property? What goes on there the unsolved property? 98 00:07:13.240 --> 00:07:15.839 Um, if we don't get a bit on it, then it becomes 99 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:20.759 county owned property, and then the county is responsible for mowing and cleaning and 100 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:23.879 doing all of that. So they don't want to do that, and we 101 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:28.920 don't want to do that now, and so m we hold another cell after 102 00:07:28.959 --> 00:07:33.839 the resell um it's called the Commissioner's cell. And so it's a little different 103 00:07:33.879 --> 00:07:38.439 process than the resale. So, um, you know, we try to 104 00:07:38.839 --> 00:07:42.480 we try to get them sold. It's they go for a little bit cheaper. 105 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:46.199 We can do them for less than the taxes at that point, um, 106 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:48.240 just to try to get them sold and get them back on the tax 107 00:07:48.360 --> 00:07:53.079 role because once they become county owned property, then you know, there's there's 108 00:07:53.120 --> 00:07:56.279 no taxes or anything on them. They give a cost, they do, 109 00:07:56.319 --> 00:07:59.879 they become a cost. Yes, wow, you see you got that play 110 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:05.319 and be here that that's that's kind of cool. That's right down. It's 111 00:08:05.439 --> 00:08:09.279 awesome. But anyway, so if you're looking to perhaps invest in some property 112 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:15.360 and you want to get perhaps the deal of a lifetime, this is the 113 00:08:15.399 --> 00:08:18.720 place to be. And that's going to be again, it's gonna be June 114 00:08:18.759 --> 00:08:24.439 twelve at nine o'clock and it's going to be at the County Administrative Building on 115 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:28.040 Johnstone Gat the Administrative Building, not at the courthouse. Not at the courthouse 116 00:08:28.120 --> 00:08:33.919 downstairs. At the administrative buildings little to the north. There you go to 117 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:39.120 have a big green sign out front that very sale's good. You direct traffic 118 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:43.080 there, signs oh yeah, this final on the sign, it'll be good. 119 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:46.840 And to bring cash to what what are the kind of like the average 120 00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:52.480 prices of these things going? You know, there's really no average price. 121 00:08:52.960 --> 00:08:58.480 I mean I was trying to fund sixty dollars and we sold them for forty 122 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:03.639 eight dollars. Oh wow, how did it sixty eight bucks? Yeah? 123 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:07.360 Yeah, empty lots all right. I just want to know how much I 124 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:11.679 need to put in the atua. Yeah, like I'm going to be a 125 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:16.399 big property magnate soon. But anyway, this is how it's done. And 126 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:22.480 it's called the Resale a Baton and it's the twelfth and it's at the administrative 127 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:26.600 building right there on Johnstone and you can't miss it. And if anybody has 128 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:28.919 that questions or something, can they just call the office? Absolutely, how 129 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:33.159 do we get hold of you? Eight three three seven two eight one zero 130 00:09:33.360 --> 00:09:37.399 all right? And you're not going to post any photos or anything like that 131 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:41.159 on the website or the no, they can go on our website and create 132 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:43.840 the list of the properties. Oh, okay, there you go. You 133 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:48.480 have to do the looking on your own. Yeah, you do the research. 134 00:09:48.559 --> 00:09:50.000 We'll provide you the list. Yeah, you can do the research. 135 00:09:50.279 --> 00:09:54.679 And they can also pick up a list in our office if you know after 136 00:09:54.080 --> 00:09:56.799 they don't like the computer. They don't like the computer. Yes, there's 137 00:09:58.279 --> 00:10:01.840 still a healthy amount of folks in the community that don't like them. And 138 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:09.120 they'll tell you I don't like the computer. Well, this is great. 139 00:10:09.159 --> 00:10:11.679 I'm glad you ladies came in and doctors a little bit. Give us a 140 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:16.799 little bit of information here too. And where can we find your office cause 141 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:18.840 we have to, uh, you know, have a question that probably needs 142 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:22.399 eyeballs on it. Where can we find you? We're at four hundred South 143 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:26.720 Johnstone and we're in room two hundred. Okay, second floor, yes, 144 00:10:28.039 --> 00:10:31.399 second floor. Nice good view of the city. Yeah, very good for 145 00:10:31.679 --> 00:10:33.960 listen, Jennifer. I want to thank you for being a part of our 146 00:10:33.960 --> 00:10:39.080 program today and a part of the education moving forward here on this as well. 147 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:43.879 And it's always great to have you on board. And we always have 148 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:46.320 our folks from the account Again. On the first Friday of the of the 149 00:10:46.399 --> 00:10:52.039 month, Todd usually does a real good job of managing things that way. 150 00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:58.440 He's everywhere. Lissa Jennifer, thanks again for being with us right here on 151 00:10:58.519 --> 00:10:58.960 our Community Connection program.