Pulaski County, GA tax sales

County offices

County notes

• •Tax Commissioner is Eric Vickers. Phone 478-783-2811, fax 478-783-0696, physical office 45 S. Lumpkin St., Ste 108, Hawkinsville, GA 31036, mailing address P.O. Box 448, Hawkinsville, GA 31036, per the county's own Tax Commissioner department page.
• •Pulaski County and the City of Hawkinsville share one official website, hawkinsville-pulaski.org, built as a joint city and county partnership. The Tax Commissioner sits under its DEPARTMENTS menu.
• •No Pulaski County tax sale page, sale calendar, delinquent tax list, or excess funds list was found on any official county web property, and no online auction platform was verified. Do not assume an online sale.
• •The Tax Commissioner's only published online service is property tax search and payment through Government Window at pulaskicountyga.governmentwindow.com, linked from both the Tax Commissioner page and the county Taxes page. That portal is captcha gated and could not be read, so nothing about its contents is asserted here.
• •For pre bid parcel diligence, the county website links to the Pulaski County Tax Assessors on qPublic at qpublic.net/ga/pulaski and a Schneider parcel search application. Both blocked automated retrieval, so their contents were not verified.
• •The Georgia Department of Revenue County Property Tax Facts page for Pulaski lists no separate office phone or address and points taxpayers to hawkinsville-pulaski.org. It states property tax bills are generally due December 20, that a local governing authority may move the due date to December 1 or November 15 or use installment billing, and that taxpayers get 60 days from the postmark of the tax bill before interest accrues, with penalties possible on unpaid balances.
• •The Pulaski County Sheriff's Office, on Hwy 341 Bypass in Hawkinsville, publishes nothing about sheriff sales, levy sales, or auctions. Under Georgia practice the Tax Commissioner acting as ex officio sheriff, or the Sheriff, cries the sale.

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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