240 Nw 66th St, Topeka, KS 66617

Topeka, Kansas, 66617

Tax DeedpendingSells Sep 23, 2026 · 10 days ago

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Opening bid

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Assessed value

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Market / AVM

$265,000

Taxes owed

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Parcel number: 0142000001020010 (LANDLOCKED)
Case number: —
Land use: Single Family
Beds / baths: 3 bd · 2.5 ba
Building: 2,484 sqft
Acreage: 24.54
Lot size: 1,068,962 sqft
Year built: 1975
Owner of record: Zella Cole

Legal description

VACANT LOT

Property facts enriched via rentcast · 9/21/2026

Aerial view of 240 Nw 66th St, Topeka, KS 66617 — the parcel

Aerial view of 240 Nw 66th St, Topeka, KS 66617 — what is around it

Site & surroundings

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

Industrial land0.6 mi from parcel centre
Truck traffic and operating hours are the usual complaint.

Context

Water body (3 nearby)387 ft from parcel centre
Frontage or flood exposure depending on elevation and zone — read this next to the FEMA signal, not on its own.
Indian Creek466 ft from parcel centre
Frontage or flood exposure depending on elevation and zone — read this next to the FEMA signal, not on its own.
Elevation 1027 ft
Ground elevation at the parcel. Compare with the FEMA base flood elevation where one is published.
FEMA flood zone X
Outside the 1% annual chance floodplain.

County records

Official appraiser / assessor — free, always available. Copy the parcel number if the link opens a search page.

Assessor, Appraiser ↗search: 0142000001020010 (LANDLOCKED)
Delinquent Taxes and Tax Sales ↗search: 0142000001020010 (LANDLOCKED)
Register of Deeds ↗search: 0142000001020010 (LANDLOCKED)
GIS Maps ↗search: 0142000001020010 (LANDLOCKED)
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Shawnee County rules

Sale type: Tax Deed
Redemption: None once judicial foreclosure completes (roughly 3+ years of delinquency)
Return if redeemed: N/A — outright deed transfer
Statute: Kansas Statutes Ch. 79, Art. 23

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Historical comps

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Index 2026-08-01 · 87,879 total recorded outcomes

Liens that survive

Proper judicial tax foreclosure can cut off junior private liens, but federal tax liens and process defects may survive. Always review the foreclosure judgment and title search for each parcel.

Quiet title

Title insurance often still requires quiet title or extended review after tax foreclosure deed depending on insurer and judgment quality.

Verify before you bid

This record was compiled from the published sale list. Parcels are pulled, redeemed, and re-priced up to the moment of sale. Confirm the lot is still in the sale, and confirm the opening bid, directly with the county.

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Deal analysis

Your maximum bid

$155,085

Walk away above this. Projected profit at the ceiling: $79,500 (30% of ARV).

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

History-guided suggestion

$139,577

Under max by $15,509

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Median sold

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p(redeem) prior

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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 $265,000. 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: $265,000
Selling costs on exitassumed 8.0% of ARV — agent commission plus seller-side closing.: −$21,200
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 KS range ($1,800–$5,000, ~5 months).: −$3,400
Deed recording and transferassumed Typical KS recording and deed issuance cost.: −$250
Holding costs (14 months)assumed Taxes, insurance, and securing the property at ~$398/month.: −$5,565
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): −$79,500
Maximum bid: $155,085

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. TWELVE MONTHS OF TITLE RISK AFTER THE SALE, AND IT PAYS NOTHING. K.S.A. 79-2804b allows an action to open, vacate, modify or set aside the judgment or order of sale within twelve months of confirmation. It is a defect window, not a redemption — the purchaser earns no penalty for waiting it out, so unlike a redeemable-deed state the wait is pure carry.
Kansas assesses by subclass and this entry assumes residential at 11.5%. Vacant lots at 12% are close enough not to matter. Commercial and industrial at 25% and the 'all other' residual at 30% are not: dividing by 0.115 overstates those by roughly 2.2x and 2.6x — the dangerous direction, and 'all other' is a residual that catches more than its name suggests. Agricultural land is assessed at 30% of agricultural income value rather than of market value at all, so a derived ARV there is meaningless. Check the subclass on the appraiser's record before bidding on anything that is not plainly a house or a vacant lot.

AI risk brief

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