Lake County, Michigan

Aug 27, 2026 · 16 days ago· 10:00am EDT to 7:00pm EDT

Tax Deedscheduledvia Tax Sale Info

Parcels

Opening bids

$75,312

all parcels priced

Redemption

None

clear title at sale

Quiet title

$2K–$4K

typically required

MI caveats

Michigan's foreclosure judgment cuts off prior liens and the owner's interest, so title is comparatively clean — quiet title is often unnecessary.
Valuations here derive from a stale SEV, not comps. Treat the computed ARV as a starting point and override it with real comparable sales before bidding at the ceiling.
Rand v. Rand / Hall-era excess-proceeds rules mean former owners may claim surplus; this does not affect the buyer's title.

Lake County rulesstate defaults

Sale type: Tax Deed
Redemption period: Forfeiture/foreclosure process ends redemption rights before auction (roughly 2 years of delinquency)
Investor return: N/A — outright deed transfer
Governing statute: Michigan Compiled Laws §211.78 et seq.
Population: 13,005 residents

Notes

County (or state, via Dept. of Treasury in some cases) runs the foreclosure and auction.

Inherited from Michigan rather than researched for Lake: type, redemption, returns, statute, notes.

Parcels — ranked by assessed value over opening bid

Parcel	Address	Opening bid	Assessed	Spread	Status
04-013-017-50	N Brooks Rd	$818	$56,600	$55,782	pending
41-115-007-00	N Brooks Rd	$818	$36,900	$36,082	pending
05-034-003-00	1197 N USFS RD 6583	$2,275	$35,700	$33,425	pending
15-404-001-01	S Lake Dr · Idlewild Area

Spread is not profit.It compares the opening bid to the county's assessed value, which is not market value — Michigan state equalized value is 50% of true cash value by constitution (Mich. Const. art. IX, § 3); taxable value may be lower still. The SEV published with these auction listings is taken from the delinquent tax year that was foreclosed upon, so it is typically several years stale — in a rising market it understates current value, and in a falling one it overstates it. Open a parcel to run the full max-bid analysis, which accounts for the assessment ratio, surviving liens, quiet title, and holding costs.