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Confirmation primary; quiet title used for insurer comfort or residual defects. Auditor also runs separate forfeited-land sales (typically fall).
Ohio hybrid / sheriff tax-foreclosure county. Geauga County: mortgage/land foreclosure sales online at geauga.sheriffsaleauction.ohio.gov. Treasurer’s (delinquent tax) sales held in person at Geauga County Common Pleas Courthouse, 100 Short Court Street, Chardon — typically Thursdays 10:00 a.m. or scheduled date; front steps (inside if weather). Treasurer sale down payment = 10% of purchase price; cash or certified check only (no personal checks). Cleveland MSA east / semi-rural townships (Chardon, Bainbridge, Chesterland, Middlefield) with strong school-driven demand.
Inherited from Ohio rather than researched for Geauga: type, redemption, returns, statute.
Spread is not profit.It compares the opening bid to the county's assessed value, which is not market value — R.C. 5715.01: taxable value is the percentage of true value the tax commissioner sets by rule, capped at 35%. The rule has been at the 35% ceiling for decades and applies uniformly statewide, with no classification by property type and no county overrides. Open a parcel to run the full max-bid analysis, which accounts for the assessment ratio, surviving liens, quiet title, and holding costs.
| 14339 Sperry Rd · Newbury |
| $123,334 |
| $67,450 |
| -$55,884 |
| pending |
| 02-044000 | 7365 Samuel Lord Dr · Chagrin Falls | $200,000 | $96,150 | -$103,850 | pending |