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Riley County votes to proceed with real-estate tax foreclosure process for roughly 136 tracts
Summary
The commission approved a resolution to proceed with a real-estate tax foreclosure sale involving about 136 tracts; county counsel said filings will proceed and a sale is expected around July 2025.
The Riley County Commission on Jan. 13 approved a resolution authorizing the county to begin the real-estate tax foreclosure process for properties previously bid in by the county at delinquent-tax sales.
Deputy County Counselor Jacob Hanson told commissioners the resolution starts a statutory process to file petitions necessary for a court-ordered sale. Hanson said that as of the Jan. 13 meeting about "136 tracts of real estate" were included in the proposed foreclosure list; he cautioned that some properties often are redeemed before sale. He added that staff had observed "an uptick in the amount of actual homes included in this foreclosure sale," though he did not provide a historical comparison.
Hanson said the county planned to file the foreclosure petition after commission approval and expected the sale to take place "sometime around July," contingent on statutory timelines and redemptions. Commissioners voted to approve the resolution; the motion passed unanimously.
County staff clarified the process in response to commissioner questions: properties are eligible for foreclosure proceedings after a statutorily specified delinquency period (discussion in the meeting cited three years), and the county’s administrative step of "bidding in" at delinquent-tax sales is part of the statutory framework that precedes the foreclosure filing and potential sale.
The resolution directs county staff to proceed with the petition filings necessary to move the properties toward court-ordered sale while noting many properties are often redeemed in the interim.
