5398 SHERMANS VALLEY ROAD

SOUTHWEST MADISON TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania, 17047

Tax DeedpendingSells Sep 29, 2026 · 5 days ago

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Opening bid

$4,254

Assessed value

$129,600

Land $48,300Improvement $81,300

Market / AVM

$134,000

Taxes owed

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Parcel number: 142,140.00-017.000
Case number: —
Land use: Residential
Building: 924 sqft
Acreage: 0.87
Lot size: 38,010 sqft
Year built: 1978
Owner of record: MORROW, RONALD, BRIAN

Property facts enriched via realestateapi · 9/29/2026

Aerial view of 5398 SHERMANS VALLEY ROAD — the parcel

Aerial view of 5398 SHERMANS VALLEY ROAD — what is around it

Site & surroundings

Physical conditions that affect value and rarely appear on a listing.

Sloped ground — about 9.4% grade
Gentle grade — a stepped foundation or some cut and fill on a build.

Context

FEMA flood zone X
Outside the 1% annual chance floodplain.
Elevation 665 ft
Ground elevation at the parcel. Compare with the FEMA base flood elevation where one is published.
3% of homes vacant year-round in Census Tract 306.02
48 of 1,606 units vacant year-round, around or below the national tract average. A further 463 unit(s) are vacant seasonally — second homes rather than distress — so a headline vacancy rate quoted elsewhere for this tract will read 32%.
Tract median home value $220,500
Self-reported median across the whole tract — context for whether a number is plausible, not a comparable and never a bid input.

Property detail

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Summary(10)

Estimated equity
Id	179,241,848
Free clear	Yes
High equity	Yes
Mobile home	Yes
Property type	MOBILE
Equity percent	100
Owner occupied	Yes
Estimated value	$134,000
Last update date	2026-09-23 00:00:00 UTC

County records

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Perry County rules

Sale type: Tax Deed
Redemption: None in most counties for upset/judicial sales; limited redemption (90 days) survives in specific home-rule counties (e.g., Philadelphia, in narrow cases)
Return if redeemed: N/A — outright deed transfer in the large majority of counties
Statute: Pennsylvania Real Estate Tax Sale Law, 72 P.S. §5860.101 et seq.

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Historical comps

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Deal analysis

Your maximum bid

$78,374

Walk away above this. Projected profit at the ceiling: $40,200 (30% of ARV).

Opening bid $4,254

Room to bid $74,120

Confidence: medium — ARV from a provider market estimate, not comps.

History-guided suggestion

$30,767

Under max by $47,607

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Your assumptions

After-repair value (ARV)

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Rehab budget

You cannot inspect before bidding — budget for the worst plausible condition

Known surviving liens

Municipal code enforcement, special assessments, federal tax liens

Target margin — 30%

Required profit as a share of ARV. 30% is a common floor for tax-sale flips.

How that number is built

Provider market estimate of $134,000. This is an as-is valuation, not an after-repair one — enter your own comparable-sales figure if the property needs work.

After-repair value: $134,000
Selling costs on exitassumed 8.0% of ARV — agent commission plus seller-side closing.: −$10,720
Rehabassumed No rehab budget entered — assumed $0. Tax-sale parcels are sold unseen and un-inspected; this is rarely correct.: −$0
Quiet title (required)assumed Midpoint of the typical PA range ($1,500–$5,000, ~4 months).: −$3,250
Deed recording and transferassumed Typical PA recording and deed issuance cost.: −$250
Holding costs (6 months)assumed Taxes, insurance, and securing the property at ~$201/month.: −$1,206
Surviving liensassumed Assumed $0 — not verified. Municipal code-enforcement liens, special assessments, and federal tax liens can survive the sale.: −$0
Target profit (30% of ARV): −$40,200
Maximum bid: $78,374

Before you bid

Rehab is assumed to be $0. You cannot inspect these properties before bidding — budget for the worst plausible condition.
Surviving liens assumed $0. UPSET SALE vs JUDICIAL SALE is the single most important distinction in Pennsylvania and this row cannot express it. An upset sale (72 P.S. §§ 5860.601-609) conveys subject to existing mortgages, judgments and liens, which are NOT divested; a judicial sale (§§ 5860.610-612) is ordered free and clear. Establish which one a parcel is in before treating survivingLiens as zero.
Pennsylvania county assessments run against base years that can be decades stale, and the spread is extreme — Bucks assesses at about 5.6% of market and Schuylkill at 100%, an 18x range inside one state. The Common Level Ratio is a county MEDIAN published for realty transfer tax equalisation, not a per-parcel appraisal, so deriving ARV from it multiplies any error in that one parcel's assessment by the factor: in Bucks a $50,000 assessment derives an ARV near $893,000. Treat a derived ARV in a high-factor county as a research lead, not a valuation, and get comparable sales before bidding.
PA has 67 counties on a different assessment ratio (42001, 42003, 42005, 42007, 42009, 42011, 42013, 42015, 42017, 42019, 42021, 42023, 42025, 42027, 42029, 42031, 42033, 42035, 42037, 42039, 42041, 42043, 42045, 42047, 42049, 42051, 42053, 42055, 42057, 42059, 42061, 42063, 42065, 42067, 42069, 42071, 42073, 42075, 42077, 42079, 42081, 42083, 42085, 42087, 42089, 42091, 42093, 42095, 42097, 42099, 42101, 42103, 42105, 42107, 42109, 42111, 42113, 42115, 42117, 42119, 42121, 42123, 42125, 42127, 42129, 42131, 42133). No FIPS was supplied, so the statewide ratio was used — pass `fips` if this parcel is in one of them.

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Site & surroundings

Physical conditions that affect value and rarely appear on a listing.

Sloped ground — about 9.4% grade

Gentle grade — a stepped foundation or some cut and fill on a build.

Context

FEMA flood zone X

Outside the 1% annual chance floodplain.

Elevation 665 ft

Ground elevation at the parcel. Compare with the FEMA base flood elevation where one is published.

3% of homes vacant year-round in Census Tract 306.02

48 of 1,606 units vacant year-round, around or below the national tract average. A further 463 unit(s) are vacant seasonally — second homes rather than distress — so a headline vacancy rate quoted elsewhere for this tract will read 32%.

Tract median home value $220,500

Self-reported median across the whole tract — context for whether a number is plausible, not a comparable and never a bid input.

179,241,848

Free clear

Yes

High equity

Yes

Mobile home

Yes

Property type

MOBILE

Equity percent

100

Owner occupied

Yes

Estimated value