5 Hodge Ave

Bluffton, South Carolina, 29910

Redeemable DeedpendingSells Oct 5, 2026 · 4 days ago

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SqFt: 1,140
Lot Size: 218,494
Year Built: 1977
APN: R600 032 000 0037 0000

Property Type: Sfr
Distressed: No
Vacant: No
Owner Type: Individual
Owner Status: Absentee (Out of State)
County: Beaufort

Value

Estimated Value: $573,000
County Market Value: $456,900; 2025
Assessed Value: $16,390; 2025

Mortgage & Debt

Open Mortgages: 0
Estimated Balance: $0
Lien Flags: None recorded; RealEstateAPI flags · not a lien search

Opportunity

Opening Bid: $5,233
Bid / Value: 0.91%; of $573,000
Property Tax 2025: $4,176; annual bill · not the amount owed
Equity (est.): $573,000; 100%

Opening bid

$5,233

Assessed value

$16,390

Market / AVM

$573,000

Property tax 2025

$4,176

Annual bill — the sale list gives no amount owed

Property facts enriched via realestateapi · 10/1/2026

Ownership Information

Owner 1 Name: Sallie Phillips
Mailing Address: 1420 Madison Dr, Buffalo Grove, IL 60089
Owner Type: Individual
Corporate Owned: No

Property Characteristics

Total Rooms: 5
Heating Type: Forced Air Unit
Construction Type: Wood

Deal analysis

School	Type	Grades	Rating	Enrollment
Red Cedar Elementary School	Public	PK-5	6	671
Bluffton Middle School	Public	6-8	6	766
Bluffton High School	Public	9-12	7	1,175

Your maximum bid

$330,982

Walk away above this. Projected profit at the ceiling: $171,900 (30% of ARV).

Opening bid $5,233

Room to bid $325,749

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

History-guided suggestion

$122,293

Under max by $208,689

≤ oracle maxBid

Co-pilot target using recorded auction history. Never above your maximum bid.

History sample

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Median sold

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p(redeem) prior

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No historical bucket for SC|Redeemable Deed; suggestion uses oracle only.

Your assumptions

After-repair value (ARV)

Override the derived estimate with real comps

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 $573,000. 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: $573,000
Selling costs on exitassumed 8.0% of ARV — agent commission plus seller-side closing.: −$45,840
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 SC range ($1,800–$5,000, ~5 months).: −$3,400
Deed recording and transferassumed Typical SC recording and deed issuance cost.: −$250
Holding costs (24 months)assumed Taxes, insurance, and securing the property at ~$860/month.: −$20,628
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): −$171,900
Maximum bid: $330,982

If the owner redeems

Flat penalty

You'd receive

$9,929

Window

365 days

A 3% flat penalty applies if the owner redeems. It is a penalty, not annual interest — the rate does not change with how early they redeem.

Quoted elsewhere as 12% annualised — true only if they redeem on the last possible day and you immediately redeploy the capital. Treat the flat penalty as the real number.

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. THE PENALTY IS CAPPED AT THE OPENING BID. § 12-51-90 provides that interest due on redemption may not exceed the forfeited land commission's bid under § 12-51-55 — roughly taxes plus costs. The tiers above are therefore a ceiling reached only by a bid at or near the minimum; a purchase at several times the minimum collects the same capped sum, so the effective yield falls as the premium rises.
South Carolina's ratio depends on the property's CLASS, and this entry uses the 6% residual. A parcel actually carrying the 4% legal-residence ratio will have its ARV understated by a third here, which is the safe direction. A manufacturing or utility parcel assessed at 10.5% is the dangerous one: dividing by 0.06 overstates its value by roughly 1.75x. Confirm the class on the assessor's record before bidding on anything that is not ordinary residential or commercial land.

5 Hodge Ave

Value

Mortgage & Debt

Opportunity

Ownership Information

Property Characteristics

5 Hodge Ave

Value

Mortgage & Debt

Opportunity

Ownership Information

Property Characteristics

Building Size

Land/Location Information

Legal Description

Tax Assessment Information

Distress Flags

Area

Fair Market Rents

Schools

Tax Assessment Information

County records

Beaufort County rules

Historical comps

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