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Tax Collections/Tax Mapping
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Surplus Bid Process |
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Bertie County accepts offers for sale of
real property owned by the County under
a process called the "Upset Bid Method"
under North Carolina General Statute
160A-269. Under this method of sale, a
person wanting to purchase property
owned by the County makes a written
offer to the County for the property and
the offer must be accompanied by a
5%
deposit in certified check or money
order payable to Bertie County. This bid
and deposit is taken to the County
Manager’s office on the second floor of
the county office building at 106 Dundee
Street, Windsor, North Carolina. After
receiving the offer
and bid, the offer is placed on the
agenda for the Board of County
Commissioners (the Board).
Once the Board has made its resolution,
a notice of the upset bid sale is
published in
the newspaper. The notice will describe
the property, set out the amount of the
offer and |
Administrator:
Tax Phone:
(252) 794-5310
Mapping Phone:
(252) 794-5311
Fax:
(252) 794-5357
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specify the requirements for submission
of an upset bid. The North Carolina
Statue requires that an upset bid be
received within 10 days after the date
the notice is published. To qualify as
an upset bid, the bid must raise the
published offer by an amount of at least
10% of the first thousand dollars of the
offer and 5% of the remainder of the
published offer. When a bid has been
successfully raised (upset), the highest
new bid becomes the current offer and
the procedure is repeated. The Board
reserves the right to reject any and all
offers at any time.
Once a final qualifying offer has been
received, that offer is reported to the
Board. The Board then must decide
whether to accept or to reject the
offer. Should the Board accept the final
qualifying offer, a non-warranty deed is
prepared for the Chairman of the Board's
signature and a time is scheduled for
the closing.
Please Note:
Once a valid bid has been placed on a
parcel, competing bids may not be placed
until the 10 day upset bid period is
open. As result, please contact staff to
ensure that a bid has not already been
accepted for the parcel you are
interested in bidding on before
attempting to place a bid
Questions may be directed to:
LaShonda Cartwright
Clerk to the Board of Commissioners
(252) 794-6110
[email protected]
Jodie Rhea
Tax Administrator
(252) 794-6152
[email protected]
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