Committee sets minimum bids at appraised values after statute change
Summary
Following a recent state statute change, Washington County’s executive committee approved setting tax-deed minimum bids at appraised values and directed staff to use appraisals included in the packet for the initial listing.
The Executive Committee approved a recommendation to set minimum bids for county tax-deed parcels at the appraised values included in the packet, citing a state statute change that now requires appraisals prior to first-sale minimums. County Clerk Ashley Reichardt said appraisals appear in the spreadsheet under a "value opinion from Jewel" column and recommended aligning minimum bids with those opinions.
Reichardt told the committee that “we no longer can set the minimum bid amount at any amount that we deem appropriate for the 1st, go at a sale,” and that the county will list properties on Wisconsin Surplus for about a week to a week and a half. If properties do not sell at the appraised minimum, Reichardt said the county attorney’s office can later propose an adjusted minimum bid.
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