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And good morning. Welcome back to
another community connection here on K one AM

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fourteen ninety three point three and ninety
five point one. I'm Nathan Thompson on

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this Friday morning in for Tom Davis, and I'm very grateful to have Melissa

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Thornbrew, our Washington County Treasurer,
coming in this morning to talk to us

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about a couple of things that are
going on. You brought somebody with you

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as well, Jennifer from the office
too, right, So again Melissa,

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good morning to you, Good morning, and good morning to you as well.

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Good morning. All right. Well, you've got a big thing coming

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up on Monday. That's the resale
going on. Have some property here as

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well, So Melissa, talk a
little bit about that process and how it's

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going. Okay, this year we
are taking the properties that have the twenty

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twenty taxes delinquent. We have about
fifty properties this year. Our cell is

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going to be on Monday. It
starts at nine o'clock. We are asking

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bidders to come in early so they
can get pre registered. And what else

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do they need to do. They
need to get preregistered, they'll get their

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bitter number. They have to have
the cash on them. Oh, yeah,

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that's important for their bids. They
will not be able to leave.

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They will be awarded the bid,
they'll step to the front, they'll pay

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for it, and then we'll go
into the next property. And did you

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have several properties this year? I
think you said fifty? Is that right?

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Okay, we have fifty properties.
The properties will be sold for two

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thirds of the assessed val you or
the amount of taxes, whichever is lower.

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Okay. However, this year we've
had a little change in state statutes

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which allows the city to request that
we start the bidding at the amount of

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delinquent taxes. I see, So
a lot of our properties will the City

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of Barnsville has sent in their requests, so a lot of the properties will

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be starting out more this year than
they typically do. I see. I

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see. So with a typical auction, it starts out at that price and

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doesn't go down from there, or
it goes up. It goes up from

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there. Okay, so it is
there starting bid is going to be the

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amount of the delinquent taxes, at
least for properties that are within the city

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of Bartlesville, because Barlosville has has
made the decision to do that right for

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them, and then it goes up
rather than down. It's still like a

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minimum, a minimum that people are
set up, right, I gotcha,

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Yeah, I gotcha. Okay.
And those are only properties that the city

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has leans on. So whether they've
either mowed the grass or torn down the

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house, because of the properties,
they can do that on. Okay,

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Okay, Well, I mean that's
good. It's not you know, to

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full value it the whole property,
I mean, right, goodness is just

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the amount of the lean. Okay, Well, that's good to know.

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So if you are a one of
those unfortunate property owners who have received a

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notice of sale, what can they
do? Well, they have until eight

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fifty nine on Monday to come in
and pay their taxes. Otherwise, once

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it goes to the cell, the
only way they can overturn a deed or

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anything is by going through the district
courts. And they would have to prove

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that we didn't you know, due
diligence in our job, and you know,

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sending out notices and notifying everybody that
has a lean or connected to the

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property, right right, and that
due diligence process is important. I mean,

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you go out there, you send
it either regular mail, certified mail,

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publication in the newspaper, signs posted
on the property. So I mean

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we do everything. I mean we
do as far as you know, Facebook

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searching, We try to do everything
to find the owner or you know,

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the airs of the owner. That's
right, that's right. Well, again,

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as you said that, this is
a buyer beware sales. So if

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if somebody is coming to buy some
property again you have to have cash with

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you, you make that recommendation as
well, or that requirement not a recommendation

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requirement. Uh so what what other
tips would you give to somebody if this

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is their first auction to go to
or share show, share sale. I

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think of what it is, it's
a research Sorry, sorry, I'm as

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confused as far as most of the
public is. So what are some of

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the things that that people need to
know before they head to this research?

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They need to make sure they know
what property it is they're buying. They

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need to do some research on it. Make sure you know what liens are

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against it. Most liens will dissolve
if you know once we have notified them.

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But some of the liens, as
far as I haven't right, a

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fly that's bugging everybody in here.
Yeah, sorry about it. That some

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of the liens as far as the
Health Oklahoma Healthcare Authority leans, those do

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not disappear, and there is a
notice given to them at the day of

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the sale on which properties those are
involved in. Gotcha? And then the

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I R S and the OTC they
also don't disappear because they're bigger than we

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are. Right, Uncle Sam always
has to get their piece of the pie.

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Right. Yeah. Well, again, the money that is collected by

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the Treasurer's office stream this resale is
used to pay those taxes and fees do

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on the property and any overages.
What happens is if it does go above

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and there aren't any additional leans from
the I R S or the OTC,

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where do those profits go do they
do they remain with the county or no?

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We After the sale, we will
try to notify the owner or the

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heirs or anybody that is you know
that can collect that money, and then

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that money will go back to them. I see. Okay, Well,

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what happens if a property does not
sell on Monday? What happens there?

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If it does not sell, it
will become county owned property. If it's

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one that the city has placed their
bid on, then it will become city

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owned property. I see so.
And then if on the county owned property,

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if people are interested in that,
there's another process they can go through

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and they can contact our office so
they can they can purchase it through a

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commissioner sale. Actually okay, all
right, And if people do have questions

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about the resale, how can they
get in contact with you? They can

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call us nine seven two eight one
zero. We also have a website.

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It's okay tax rolls dot com and
then you just beg on Washington County and

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it'll take you to our list.
There's a main menu tab and other resources,

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and it gives you lots of information
about the resell, the resale process,

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how that's all going to work.
There is one change for the resale

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process this year, or a second
change from changes a statute where every deed

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that is filed in the county has
to have an affidavit of citizenship attached to

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it, So everyone will have to
fill that out at the time of the

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sale, all right, and we'll
provide the affidavit for them and we'll have

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a notary right there so they can
just when they come up to pay,

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they can just go ahead and take
care of that that way. Everything is

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flowing. There you go, there
you go. All right, well,

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there we go. That is Washington
County Treasurers resale going on Monday, nine

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am. Is out of the courthouse, it is. It's in our back

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parking lot. Okay, in the
back parking lot of the courthouse, nine

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am on Monday. Thank you ladies
for coming in today. Thank you for

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having us. You're very welcome.
You're very welcome. Kay. One News

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