Coosa County, AL tax sales
Tax Sale Atlas maps the Coosa County, AL tax sale, one of 2,553 counties in 30 states. Alabama sells tax lien certificates paying up to 12%. Sale office, calendar and list locations read from the county’s own official pages on Jul 27, 2026.
How tax lien sales work in Coosa County, seat of Rockford: sale calendar, auction platform, over-the-counter lists, and the offices that run each sale.
New to tax sales? Read how Alabama tax sales work or look terms up in the glossary.
- Next sale
- Not scheduled.
- Format
- In person
- Registration
- Pre-registration and approval are required, and there is no walk-up bidding.
- County office
- 256-377-4916
On this page
How Coosa County sells delinquent taxes
From lien to deed
Alabama holds no routine county tax deed auction under the tax lien regime. A holder of all the sold, unexpired, outstanding tax lien certificates on a parcel may file an action in circuit court to foreclose the right to redeem and quiet title, but only once four years have passed since the tax lien auction and no later than ten years after it. The holder must mail a notice of intent at least 30 days and no more than 180 days before filing, to the owner of record, every recorded lienholder, the tax collecting official, and anyone else who may reasonably be believed to hold an interest.
Tax certificate sale (lien)
- Run by
- Coosa County Revenue Commissioner (Debra W. Lamberth, ACTA), the county tax collecting official
- Frequency
- annual
- Typical timing
- Annual, on a Thursday in May.
- Registration
- Pre-registration and approval are required, and there is no walk-up bidding.
- Next expected
- between March 1 and June 15, 2027 (window; exact date posts closer to the sale)
When it runs
Registration and deposit
Pre-registration and approval are required, and there is no walk-up bidding. The rules state: "Bidders must be registered and approved in order to participate in the auction." Submit the Tax Lien Auction Bidder Registration form (bidder/company name, address, phone, cell, email, contact person). The 2026 form states the completed form "must be returned no later than 4:00 pm, Wednesday, May 13, 2026 and can be emailed to debra.lamberth@coosacountyal.gov." Approval notice comes back by email, and "a bidder number will be assigned and delivered upon arrival for the auction." In the prior cycle pre-registration opened about 10 days ahead (Monday, April 28, 2025) and closed at 4:00 pm the day before the sale.
Sale format and venue
Coosa County tax sale list and auction calendar
For Coosa County tax sale 2026 searches, use the county-run sources below rather than a copied parcel list, and confirm the parcel, registration cutoff, deposit, and payment deadline against the county before you bid.
Get the advertised list
Use 2025 Delinquent Property Tax List (parcels for the May 14, 2026 tax lien auction, PDF) for the current advertised parcels, then recheck it before the auction.Register to bid
Sale day
Not scheduled. The sale is live and in person; there is no online bidding platform. Confirm the venue and hour with the county office before you go.Confirm with the office
If the list, platform, and notice disagree, use Circuit court of the county; the circuit clerk executes the deed as the source to confirm which parcels are actually offered.
Before you bid in Coosa County
4 checks
Start with the live sale list
Pull the current advertised parcels from 2025 Delinquent Property Tax List (parcels for the May 14, 2026 tax lien auction, PDF). Lists can change before the sale, so recheck the county source before you price a parcel.Confirm registration and deposit
Pre-registration and approval are required, and there is no walk-up bidding. The rules state: "Bidders must be registered and approved in order to participate in the auction." Submit the Tax Lien Auction Bidder Registration form (bidder/company name, address, phone, cell, email, contact person). The 2026 form states the completed form "must be returned no later than 4:00 pm, Wednesday, May 13, 2026 and can be emailed to debra.lamberth@coosacountyal.gov." Approval notice comes back by email, and "a bidder number will be assigned and delivered upon arrival for the auction." In the prior cycle pre-registration opened about 10 days ahead (Monday, April 28, 2025) and closed at 4:00 pm the day before the sale.
Check the state rules that change the bid
Read the Alabama due-diligence checklist before bidding. Redemption, liens that survive a tax deed, title cleanup, and payment deadlines can change what a parcel is worth.Set a walk-away number
Work out what the parcel is actually worth with the rural land value estimator, then turn it into a ceiling with the tax deed max-bid calculator.
Over-the-counter (leftover) purchases
unsold certificates
Liens that draw no bid at the auction stay with the county. At any time after the auction date the tax collecting official may sell an unsold lien at private sale for no less than all taxes, interest, penalties, costs and fees due, plus any amount owed to a prior certificate holder. The rate is agreed with the tax collecting official and cannot exceed 12 percent, so over-the-counter liens often carry the full rate. Ask the county for its list of unsold liens.
New to this path? Read how over-the-counter certificates work. Every state has its own name for what goes unsold, so check what Alabama calls its leftover tax-sale inventory.
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County offices
Tax Collector (runs the certificate sale)
Coosa County Revenue Commissioner
Coosa County Courthouse, 9709 US Highway 231, PO Box 7, Rockford, AL 35136
Official websiteCounty notes
- Auction location and time: Coosa County Courthouse, 9709 US Highway 231, Rockford, Alabama, beginning at 10:00 a.m. CDT. The delinquent list header reads "Live Auction Conducted at the Coosa County Courthouse, Thursday, May 14, 2026 / Beginning at 10:00 A.M."
- The published list carries record year, parcel identification number, owner of record, physical address, legal description, current year taxes and fees, a Prior Lien Redemption Amount column, and a Prior Lien Years column, so bidders can see which parcels already carry liens sold at earlier auctions.
- The Revenue Commissioner page is the durable home for the current cycle's documents: Tax Lien Auction Rules, Tax Lien Auction Authorization, the year-stamped Delinquent Property Tax Lien List, the Bidder Registration Form, and the Section 40-10-180 declaration. The year-stamped PDF filenames rotate annually, so re-check the hub page rather than deep links.
- The rules direct bidders to two places for the parcel list plus the courthouse counter: the county site at www.coosacountyal.com and the county's Citizen Access Portal at https://coosa.capturecama.com. The capturecama portal is a JavaScript property and tax lookup application, not an auction platform, and no bidding happens there.
- Additional office contacts published on the Revenue Commissioner page: fax 256-377-1469, email debra.lamberth@coosacountyal.gov, office hours Monday through Friday 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. Use the coosacountyal.gov email for bidder registration; an older 2025 form listed a personal gmail address that the current form has replaced.
- Separate from the county auction, the Alabama Department of Revenue Property Tax Division sells state-held tax delinquent property statewide by electronic price quote application rather than by auction, issuing an assignment of certificate when the state has held the parcel under three years and a tax deed after three years. The department warns that neither an assignment nor a tax deed gives the holder clear title.
- Third-party aggregator pages describe Coosa County as using a premium bid method. That conflicts with the county's own published rules, which specify a 12% starting rate bid down in 1% increments. Treat the county rules PDF as authoritative.
Alabama rules
- Redemption
- A tax lien can be redeemed at any time before the circuit court enters judgment in a foreclosure action, and the holder cannot file that action until four years after the auction or the tax official's private sale. If the holder does not commence a foreclosure action within ten years of the auction or sale, the certificate expires and the lien becomes void. A certificate holder has no right to enter or possess the property, make repairs, or charge rents before it receives the circuit clerk's deed. In a county that uses the Article 1 property tax sale instead, land sold to a purchaser other than the state may be redeemed within three years from the date of sale, and land bid in for the state may be redeemed at any time before title passes out of the state.
- Surplus proceeds
- In a court-ordered auction the proceeds pay the cost of the auction first, then the certificate holder up to the redemption amount plus taxes it paid before filing and the court-allowed costs and fees. Any surplus goes to the owner or the owner's heirs or successors as the court determines, and Alabama's unclaimed property law applies to whatever is left. In a county that instead uses the Article 1 property tax sale, the excess over the decree is held in a separate county account for three years for a party who redeems, and Section 40-10-28 opens later windows in which the owner or a redeeming party can claim it.
A tax deed does not convey marketable title. Most buyers file a quiet title action before they can resell or insure the property. See the due diligence guide.
Frequently asked questions
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Verified Jul 27, 2026 against official county and state sources.
Tax Sale Atlas publishes educational information about public tax sale processes. This is not legal, financial, or investment advice. Rules, dates, and fees change; confirm with the county office before you bid.
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