Jenkins County, GA tax sales

County offices

County notes

• •Tax Commissioner is Tina Burke (listed as Tina E. Burke on the county government site). Fax is (478) 982-3233, email jctc30442@yahoo.com, office hours Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. No deputy or clerk is named on the official site.
• •The Tax Commissioner's Tax Sales page exists at tax-sales.html and is linked from the navigation of every page, but the content area is an empty Government Window template. No sale dates, bidder rules, deposit terms, property list, or excess funds list are posted as of July 2026. That is why data quality is medium rather than high.
• •No online auction platform was found for Jenkins County and no platform URL is reported because none was verified. Nothing on the Tax Commissioner site, the county government site, or the Sheriff's site references GovEase, Bid4Assets, RealAuction, or any other bidding portal. Treat the sale as an in person courthouse sale and confirm by phone.
• •The Government Window portal linked from the office site as "Search & Pay Taxes" (jenkinscountyga.governmentwindow.com/tax.html) returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching and could not be verified. It is described on the office site as a current bill search and payment tool, not a sale list.
• •County government contacts for cross-checking a sale notice: Jenkins County Government, 833 E. Winthrope Ave., P.O. Box 797, Millen, GA 30442, 478-982-2563. County Administrator Grady Saxon. The Board of Commissioners meets the second Tuesday of every month at 4 p.m. in the County Annex conference room.
• •Tax fi. fa. liens are recorded with the Clerk of Superior Court, Tracey Herrington, 478-982-4683, at the Jenkins County Courthouse in Millen. The Clerk publishes no tax sale or sheriff sale listings online.
• •For pre-bid diligence, parcel and valuation data is at the Board of Tax Assessors qPublic site (https://qpublic.net/ga/jenkins/). Tax Assessor Vicky Patrick, phone 478-982-4939, fax 478-982-3706. Useful because no sale list is posted.
• •Jenkins County Sheriff is Robert Oglesby, 478-982-4211. The Sheriff's official site carries only administration, patrol, jail, permit, and public safety sections and publishes no levy or tax sale notices.
• •The Georgia Department of Revenue county page for Jenkins carries no county-specific sale logistics. It routes users to jenkinscountyga.com and notes that Jenkins County has no local homestead exemptions.
• •The county government website has no public notices or legal notices section. Its full link index covers administration, minutes and agendas, emergency services, registrar, sheriff, tax commissioner, parks, and economic development only, so newspaper advertisement in the county legal organ is the practical notice channel.
• •Address note for the county site itself: the footer of jenkinscountyga.com carries 548 Cotton Avenue, Millen, GA 30442, (478) 982-5595, which is the economic development and chamber contact, while the Administration page gives 833 E. Winthrope Ave., P.O. Box 797, 478-982-2563 for county government. Neither is the Tax Commissioner's office, which is at 611 E Winthrope Ave.
• •Recommended re-verification cadence is high. Because the county publishes nothing about sales online, any timing, platform, or registration claim must come from a dated phone call to the Tax Commissioner.

Georgia rules

Redemption

The right to redeem runs for 12 months from the date of the sale and does not end there. It continues after the year until the tax deed purchaser forecloses it by serving and publishing the statutory barment notice, which cannot be started until 12 months have passed. The purchaser delivers the notice to the sheriff at least 45 days before the redemption deadline named in it, and publishes it once a week for four consecutive weeks in the six months immediately before that deadline. Redemption puts title back in the defendant in fi. fa. subject to the liens that existed at the sale, and the purchaser must execute and record a quitclaim deed. Title under a tax deed recorded on or after July 1, 1996 ripens by prescription four years after recording. Judicial in rem foreclosures under Article 5 run on a different clock: the owner has 60 days after the sale to redeem by paying the minimum bid price into the superior court.O.C.G.A. 48-4-40, who may redeem and when (2024 Code of Georgia)O.C.G.A. 48-4-40Verified Jul 30, 2026

Deed deposit

Georgia sets no statewide percentage deposit. A purchaser at a judicial sale may tender cash or a cashier's or certified check drawn for the purchase price and issued or certified by a federally insured financial institution. Counties publish their own payment terms, and many require payment in full at the close of the sale, so confirm the terms with the tax commissioner before bidding.O.C.G.A. 48-4-1, Procedures for sales under tax levies and executions (2024 Code of Georgia)O.C.G.A. 48-4-1Verified Jul 30, 2026

Surplus proceeds

Excess funds left after taxes, costs, and the expenses of the sale belong to the former owner and to recorded lienholders in order of priority. The officer who sold the property must mail notice of the excess funds by first-class mail within 30 days to the record owner at the time of the sale, to the holder of each security deed, and to every other party with a recorded equity interest or claim, and may file an interpleader action in superior court. Funds still unclaimed five years after the sale are paid over to the Georgia Department of Revenue, after which only a court order from an interpleader action releases them.O.C.G.A. 48-4-5, Payment of excess (2024 Code of Georgia)O.C.G.A. 48-4-5Verified Jul 30, 2026

Governing statute

O.C.G.A. Title 48, Chapter 4Official Code of Georgia Annotated, public access published for the Georgia General Assembly by the Georgia Code Revision CommissionO.C.G.A. Title 48, Chapter 4Verified Jul 25, 2026

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.

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