CLATSOP COUNTY PUBLIC AUCTION
INSTRUCTION TO BIDDERS
Please be sure that the name, which you enter on the bidder sign-up sheet accurately, reflects the party or parties in whose name the deed will be made. Further, the address should be accurate for the purpose of tax statements and communications with the property management department. It is very important to have a telephone number listed so that the Property Specialist can contact you if there are any questions.
Bidder number cards will be provided that will contain your bidder number, which must be visibly displayed to the Property Specialist/Auctioneer when making your bid. This is an oral auction; the auctioneer will not use jump bids, but instead let the audience set the bid amounts as the auction progresses after the minimum bid is announced.
After bids have been called for three times and no further bids are offered, the auctioneer shall sell the parcel to the high bid. If no satisfactory bid is received for the parcel announced for sale, the parcel shall be removed from the sale and the parcel shall not be offered again at this auction. After bids have been called on all parcels, the sale will terminate whether the parcels have or have not sold.
ALL PROPERTIES WILL BE SOLD FOR CASH AT THIS AUCTION, except for parcel#15-21, which has the following terms: A non-refundable deposit of 20% of the minimum bid by 5 p.m. on the day of sale and closing to take place on or before 30 days from the date of sale (March11, 2015).
If you make a purchase, the Property Specialist’s assistant will initiate a certificate of sale. All payments must be in cash, bank draft, money order, or by cashier’s check. If you are the successful bidder, you will have until 5:00 p.m. the day of the sale to present your payment to the Property Specialist or assistant. After making the required payment and you sign a certificate of sale, you will receive a certificate of sale and a receipt.
The Clatsop County Board of Commissioners reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Once the deed has been executed, usually within four weeks from the date of the sale, our office will deliver the deed.
High bidders who do not pay for property by deadline established for payment are prohibited from bidding or purchasing County-owned property for two years after the date of the sale and County may with authority from the Board of County Commissioners, seek recovery through specific performance.
Clatsop County reserves the right to retain or remove any real properties from public sale when it deems it to be in the public’s best interest. Clatsop County does not warrant that it has any interest in the property or that its tax foreclosure proceeding was free from defect.
Clatsop County offers properties for sale AS IS.