Worth County, Missouri

Oct 18, 2026 · in 17 days

Tax Lienscheduledvia County site

Parcels

44 land-only hidden

Opening bids

—

no parcel list yet

Redemption

365 days

10% flat penalty

Quiet title

$2K–$5K

typically required

MO caveats

A NOTICE FAILURE FORFEITS THE ENTIRE INVESTMENT, NOT JUST THE DEED. RSMo 140.405: "Failure of the purchaser to comply with this section shall result in such purchaser's loss of all interest in the real estate." Compliance means a title search report from a licensed attorney or title company, notice to the owner and every recorded lienholder at least ninety days before the deed may be taken, sent by both first class and certified mail, and an affidavit filed with the collector. Budget the title search and the mailings as certain costs of every Missouri position, and treat the ninety-day deadline as the hardest date in this file.
THE 10% IS A CEILING SET BY THE CERTIFICATE. § 140.340 pays "interest at the rate specified in such certificate, not to exceed ten percent annually", plus eight per cent on subsequent taxes the holder pays. The tier is the ceiling; read the certificate before assuming it.
SUBSEQUENT OFFERINGS ARE A DIFFERENT INSTRUMENT. A parcel unsold at its first offering is offered again, and the terms — price, redemption and the deed timetable — change with the offering number under § 140.250. Nothing in a listing necessarily says which offering it is, and this entry models a first-offering certificate.
ST. LOUIS CITY AND JACKSON COUNTY DO NOT USE THIS CHAPTER. They operate under chapter 141, the land tax collection act, which is a court-supervised process with different timing and a different deed. A parcel in either is not priced by this entry.
quietTitle costs here are a placeholder and have not been reviewed by the operator.

Worth County rulesstate defaults

Sale type: Tax Lien
Redemption period: 1 year (2 years for some parcels) from sale
Investor return: 10% per annum plus 8% on subsequent taxes paid
Governing statute: Missouri Revised Statutes Ch. 140
Population: 1,872 residents

Notes

County collector auctions; purchaser must petition for a collector's deed after the redemption period.

Inherited from Missouri rather than researched for Worth: type, redemption, returns, statute, notes.

Parcels — ranked by assessed value over opening bid

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Every parcel in this sale is hidden: 44 land-only. Land-only means no street address, a house number of zero, or a street with no number; withdrawn parcels are no longer on offer.

Spread is not profit.It compares the opening bid to the county's assessed value, which is not market value — RSMo 137.115(5)(1) assesses real property by subclass as a percentage of true value in money: residential 19%, agricultural and horticultural 12%, and utility, industrial, commercial and all other 32%. This entry uses the residential rate. Open a parcel to run the full max-bid analysis, which accounts for the assessment ratio, surviving liens, quiet title, and holding costs.