Schleicher County, TX tax sales

County offices

County notes

• •Vanessa Covarrubiaz is the Schleicher County Tax Assessor-Collector and Voter Registrar. Leticia Porras is the Deputy Tax Assessor-Collector. Office hours are Monday through Friday, 9AM to 5PM, closed 12 to 1PM. The office lists one number for both phone and fax: 325-853-3066.
• •The Texas Comptroller county directory independently lists the same tax office: Vanessa Covarrubiaz, 2 S. Divide St., Eldorado, Texas 76936, phone 325-853-3066, mailing address P.O. Box 658, Eldorado, Texas 76936-0658, website www.schleichercounty.gov.
• •The Schleicher County Sheriff's Office is led by Sheriff Jason Chatham at 4 S. Divide Street, Eldorado, TX 76936, phone (325) 853-2737. The Sheriff's page says nothing about tax sales or public property auctions.
• •The county's Trustee Sales page (labeled Foreclosure in the URL) is for private substitute-trustee mortgage foreclosures, not tax sales, and its newest document is dated March 3, 2020.
• •The county's old domain co.schleicher.tx.us now issues a 301 redirect to www.schleichercounty.gov, which is hosted on ezTask Titanium through the Texas Association of Counties.
• •Schleicher County Appraisal District (1 W. Warner Ave, Eldorado, TX 76936, phone 325-853-2617, chief appraiser Anna Buitron) handles appraisal and protests only. It publishes no tax sale or struck-off property information and points tax payment to tax.co.schleicher.tx.us.
• •Negative checks: querying the Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson Texas tax sale service returned zero properties and zero county records for Schleicher, and the McCreary, Veselka, Bragg & Allen monthly Texas sale list did not include Schleicher County. Neither firm publishes a Schleicher County sale.
• •Web search quota was exhausted during this research, so discovery relied on direct fetches of official county, appraisal district and Texas Comptroller URLs plus a limited engine query. The absence of a county sale page was confirmed against the county's own full site map, which lists every page on the site.

Texas rules

Redemption

The redemption clock runs from the date the purchaser's deed is filed for record, not from the sale date. Property that was the owner's residence homestead or was land designated for agricultural use when the suit or the warrant application was filed, and any mineral interest, may be redeemed on or before the second anniversary of that filing. Every other property may be redeemed only through the 180th day after the deed is filed. When a parcel is struck off to a taxing unit instead, the period runs from the date the taxing unit's deed is filed for record. The former owner has no right to use, possess, or collect rent from the property while the redemption right runs, and the right of redemption cannot be sold or transferred: any instrument purporting to transfer it is void.Texas Tax Code 34.21 - Right of redemptionTex. Tax Code 34.21Verified Jul 25, 2026

Deed deposit

The Tax Code sets no statewide deposit and no buyer premium. Section 34.01 directs the officer to conduct the sale the way similar property is sold under execution, so payment terms are set locally by the officer who runs the sale. Most Texas counties collect the full bid in cash or by cashier's check on the day of the sale. Confirm the terms with the county before you bid.Texas Tax Code 34.01 - Sale of propertyTex. Tax Code 34.01Verified Jul 25, 2026

Homestead deeds

Texas sets no separate opening bid for a homestead. What changes on a homestead parcel is the exit: a residence homestead, land designated for agricultural use when the suit or warrant application was filed, and a mineral interest all carry a two-year redemption right instead of 180 days, and the premium the owner pays can reach 50 percent in the second year. Price a homestead parcel for that longer clock.Texas Tax Code 34.21 - Right of redemptionTex. Tax Code 34.21Verified Jul 25, 2026

Surplus proceeds

The officer pays any excess proceeds to the clerk of the court that issued the order of sale. The clerk holds the excess for two years after the sale and notifies the former owner when the amount exceeds $25. A claim must be filed before the second anniversary of the sale. The court pays established claims in statutory priority: a purchaser at a sale later adjudged void, taxing units for post-judgment or omitted taxes, other lienholders, taxing units for unsatisfied judgment amounts, and then the former owner. Anything unclaimed is distributed to the taxing units.Texas Tax Code 34.03 - Disposition of excess proceedsTex. Tax Code 34.03Verified Jul 25, 2026

Governing statute

Tex. Tax Code Chapter 34Texas Tax Code 34.01 - Sale of propertyTex. Tax Code 34.01Verified 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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