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Blair County Tax Claim
Bureau
Blair County Courthouse
423 Allegheny Street, Suite 143
Hollidaysburg, PA 16648
Polly J. Cardone
Director
Shelley A. Berry
Assistant Director
Office:
(814) 317-2361
Office Fax:
(814) 693-3036
Office Hours:
Monday - Friday 8am-4pm, EST
Except Legal Holidays
We remain open over lunch.
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REPOSITORY SALE:
Properties not sold at a
Judicial Sale are placed in a “Repository” Status. This in effect is a
bank of unsold properties. The Bureau may take bids of any property held
in the repository, which needs to be approved by the appropriate taxing
authorities.
Repository
Tax Sale List: Last updated 2/12/2010
To download the current Blair County
Repository List in Adobe® PDF format, please click
<HERE>.
To place a bid on a
property listed on the Blair County Repository List,
you must download and complete the following forms:
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Bid Form,
please click
<HERE>
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Bidder Verification form,
please click
<HERE>
Blair County Tax Claim Bureau
Repository Rules & Conditions:
(The Bureau reserves the right to make changes to these terms and need
be.)
Please be advised
that the posted Repository List is to be used as a guideline and may
include properties that have recently been sold or are pending sale
approval.
All bids must be
submitted, with the provided form, either by mail or in person. We will
not accept any bid submitted to the Bureau by email or fax.
All persons desiring
to bid on any property offered for sale are required to use form provided
on the web site and submit it to: Blair County
Tax Claim Bureau, 423 Allegheny St., Ste.143, Hollidaysburg, PA. 16648.
All sales are
also subject to the written consent of each taxing district where the
property is located. Once the Bureau receives your bid it will be
submitted for approval to the School District in which the property is
located as well as the Municipality for approval. (Please be aware that
it can take up to two to three weeks for the Bureau to even submit your
bid to the required taxing authorities, and then it can take up to 30
days from them receiving your bid to approve or deny the bid).
In the event a taxing district rejects the bid, the
bidder will be notified in writing.
***If you submit a
bid at the time of any up coming tax sales ex. (Upset or Judicial) this
process will be longer, if you have not received any type of
notification from us within 3 months of submitting your bid, you can
then call our office to see if we have received any information.
If all parties
accept your Bid, you will be notified in writing of the required funds
due in order to transfer the deed into the purchaser’s name. All
properties sold are subject to Recording Costs and Transfer Taxes.
Winning Bidder,
will within twenty (20) days following acceptance of the bid, be
required to send payment by Certified Check or Money Order
payable to the Blair County Tax Claim Bureau. Also, the fees required
for the Recording of the deed and the Transfer Tax can be made by a
personal check or money order made payable to The Blair County
Recorder of Deeds. You will also have to provide a VERIFICATION OF
NON-OWNERSHIP INTEREST, NON-DELINQUENCY AND COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION
601(d) OF RETSL OF 1947, on the form provided by the Bureau that the
said person is not delinquent in paying real estate taxes to any of the
taxing districts (county, municipal or school) where the property is
located and that the person has no municipal utility bills that are more
than one (1) year outstanding. You will need to provide a photo copy
of your Drivers License along with this form.
The Tax Claim Bureau will issue a deed to
the purchaser. However, the said deed will not contain any warranty
either general or special. We strongly urge you to consult an
attorney prior to purchase and also to drive by the location to make
sure you have access to the property you are bidding on.
No refund
will be made after the property is sold.
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
The rule of Caveat Emptor (buyer beware) applies. (See 72 P.S. 5931).
We urge you to research the property prior
to placing a bid. The property is offered for sale by the Tax Claim
Bureau without any guarantee or warranty what so ever, either as to
existence, correctness of ownership, size boundaries, locations,
structures or lack of a structure, liens, and title or any other
matter.
Mobil Homes / trailers
will, however, be sold under and subject to any encumbrances listed on
the trailer’s certificate of title.
An encumbrance
is a legal term of art for anything that affects or limits the title of a property, such as
mortgages, leases, easements, liens, or restrictions. Also, those
considered as potentially making the title defeasible are also
encumbrances. For example, charging orders, building orders
and structure alteration.
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