903 Ella Ave

Kansas City, Kansas, 66101

Tax DeedpendingSells Oct 14, 2026 · in 5 days

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Beds: 2
Baths: 1
SqFt: 729
Lot Size: 2,663
Year Built: 1920
APN: 092921

Property Type: Sfr
Distressed: No
Vacant: No
Owner Type: Individual
Owner Status: Owner Occupied
County: Wyandotte

Value

Estimated Value: $93,000
County Market Value: $17,010; 2025
Assessed Value: $1,957; 2025

Mortgage & Debt

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

Opportunity

Opening Bid: $80,775
Bid / Value: 87%; of $93,000
Property Tax 2025: $26,744; annual bill · not the amount owed
Equity (est.): $93,000; 100%
Monthly Rent: $1,164; Suggested rent
Gross Yield: 15.02%

Opening bid

$80,775

Assessed value

$1,957

Land $1,278Improvement $679

Market / AVM

$93,000

Property tax 2025

$26,744

Annual bill — the sale list gives no amount owed

Property facts enriched via realestateapi · 9/29/2026

Ownership Information

Owner 1 Name: Ronald Currie
Mailing Address: 903 Ella Ave, Kansas City, KS 66101
Owner Type: Individual
Corporate Owned: No

Property Characteristics

Total Rooms: 4
Bedrooms: 2
Total Bathrooms

Deal analysis

Your maximum bid

$52,057

Do not bid — the numbers do not clear your margin.

Opening bid $80,775

Room to bid -$28,718

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

History-guided suggestion

Pass

History + oracle say stay out or wait — do not chase.

History sample

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Median sold

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p(redeem) prior

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No historical bucket for KS|Tax Deed; suggestion uses oracle only.
Oracle says no-bid — suggestion is pass.

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 $93,000. 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: $93,000
Selling costs on exitassumed 8.0% of ARV — agent commission plus seller-side closing.: −$7,440
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 ~$140/month.: −$1,953
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): −$27,900
Maximum bid: $52,057

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.
The opening bid of $80,774.63 is already above your ceiling of $52,057.

903 Ella Ave

Value

Mortgage & Debt

Opportunity

Ownership Information

Property Characteristics

903 Ella 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

Tax Assessment Information

County records

Wyandotte County rules

Historical comps

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