Ontonagon County, Michigan

Aug 18, 2026 · 25 days ago· 10:00am EDT to 7:00pm EDT

Tax Deedscheduledvia Tax Sale Info

Parcels

Opening bids

$8,352

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.

Ontonagon 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: 5,824 residents

Notes

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

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

Parcels — ranked by assessed value over opening bid

Parcel	Address	Opening bid	Assessed	Spread	Status
05 003 008 20	5194 OLD US 45 HAIGHT TOWNSHIP	$680	$47,060	$46,380	pending
04 201 011 00	29272 SIMAR WASAS RD GREENLAND TOWNSHIP	$680	$42,650	$41,970	pending
41 166 008 00	508 S FOURTH ST ONTONAGON TOWNSHIP · ONTONAGON	$680	$39,450	$38,770	pending
01 217 004 00

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.