Viewing Your Certificates and Selecting for Tax Deed

 

 

The View Your Certificates and Select for Tax Deed screen allows certificate holders to view all your previously purchased certificates and start the Tax Deed Process.

 

Quick Help     To file for tax deed do the following:

                                      Enter a Filing Date in the Earliest Filing Date for Certification field.

                                       Choose Apply Date for Account Selection.

                                       Select and POST the individual certificates you wish to file on or

Select all available by choosing Select All My Certificates for Tax Deed Based on the Entered Date.

Once all your certificates have been MARKED continue with the Tax Deed Process by going to:

Manage Non-Submitted Tax Deed Selections from the View Your Certificates drop-down.

 

The top portion of the screen allows you to view your certificates by year and sale number, by status, in either property or certificate order.  It also allows you to input a specific property number or certificate number to inquire on.

 

View Selection Parameters – This area of the screen is used to selectively choose which certificates you wish to view and select from.  Change the viewing selections and hit the Update the Certificate List with the Above Selections to change the certificates you view on the bottom of the screen.

 

Viewing Filter – The viewing filter allows you to choose specific certificates to view for purchase.  Each holder defines their own filters to selectively view items.  See the Filter Maintenance Help area to setup and maintain your filters.

 

Items to View Per Page – This field defaults to 50 items to page.  You may enter any number up to 99 items per page.

 

Sale Year – The sale year is the four digit year the tax sale certificate was issued.  You may enter the sale year here to view specific sale years.  You may also enter ALL to view all your held certificates.

 

Sale Number – The sale number is 00 (zero) for the first sale in the sale year.  If the tax collector has a supplemental sale during the sale year you would need to enter a 01, 02, 03 etc. to see each additional sale if there are any.

 

Status – The status field has five options - Open, Cancelled, Redeemed, Tax Deed, Special and All Certs.  The default is “Open” to show only unpaid certificates.

 

Viewing Sequence – There are two options for viewing sequence – Certificate and Property.  The default is “Certificate”, the certificates will be listed in certificate order.  If you choose Property, the certificates will be listed by property number.

 

 

Find Property – If you are looking for a specific certificate and you know the property number you may enter it here, be sure to include the alpha characters and any dashes. If you know the year, enter it in the year filed.  If you leave the year blank it will bring up all the years.

 

Find Certificate – If you are looking for a specific certificate and you know the certificate number you may enter it here.  The Year field is the year the certificate was issued – the Number field has two areas, the first is the number of the certificate and the second is the sale number in that specific year.  The first tax sale has a number of “00”; if there were any supplemental sales they would start with “01” and continue in order.

 

Update the Certificate List with the Above Selections – Choose this button when you have filled in the selections in the selections parameters fields.  This applies the options you have chosen and displays the certificates at the bottom of the screen.  You may also use the Enter button.

 

Reset Selections Parameters to Default – By selecting this option in the selection parameters area the Selection Parameters change to All Open Certificates.  After choosing Reset Parameters either hit the enter button or the Update the Certificate List with the Above Selections button to update the screen.

 

The bottom portion of the screen lists the certificates that you selected with the options in the selection parameters area of the screen. 

 

 

Filing for Tax Deed

 

To file for tax deed you must first enter your Earliest Estimated Filing Date.  Either enter the date MM/DD/CCYY, or choose a date from the calendar.  After you have chosen a date select Apply Date for Account Selection.  This will update the bottom of the screen with the certificates that may be applied upon for your estimated filing date.

 

 

To select a certificate, or a list of certificates to file for tax deed on - put a check in the Select box(es) on the screen and hit the POST button.  This will add them into the tax deed certificates list.

 

Once a certificate has been selected and Posted it will have a status of MARKED.

 

To page forward/backward through the list of certificates hit the Next, Back or First buttons.  Remember to hit the Post button before you go to the next screen to update your list.

 

To apply for tax deed on ALL your certificates that are available to be filed on put in your date, Apply Date for Account Selection and then select Select All My Certificates for Tax Deed based on the Entered Date this will mark all your available certificates.

 

To remove a MARKED certificate from your list put a check in the Select box and choose the Remove button.  Once Removed the Selection Status of MARKDED will be removed.

 

Once all your certificates have been MARKED you may continue with the Tax Deed Process by going to Manage Non-Submitted Tax Deed Selections from the View Your Certificates drop-down.