20 Sarah St, Westwego, LA 70094

Westwego, Louisiana, 70094

Tax LienpendingSells Aug 12, 2026 · 31 days ago

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Opening bid

$1,343

Assessed value

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Market / AVM

$190,000

Taxes owed

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Parcel number: 0500003703
Case number: —
Land use: Single Family
Building: —
Acreage: 0.12
Lot size: 5,225 sqft
Year built: —
Owner of record: Brian Singleton
Last sale: $65,000 · 2017-09-21

Legal description

LOT 7 SQ 21 LIVE OAK MANOR

Property facts enriched via rentcast · 8/14/2026

Aerial view of 20 Sarah St, Westwego, LA 70094 — the parcel — Aerial imagery from the USGS National Map. Flown on a multi-year cycle — it shows the site as photographed, which may predate clearing, construction or demolition. Not evidence of current condition.

Aerial view of 20 Sarah St, Westwego, LA 70094 — what is around it — Aerial imagery from the USGS National Map. Flown on a multi-year cycle — it shows the site as photographed, which may predate clearing, construction or demolition. Not evidence of current condition.

County records

Official appraiser / assessor — free, always available. Copy the parcel number if the link opens a search page.

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Jefferson County rules

Sale type: Redeemable Deed
Redemption: 3 years from sale (5 years for some blighted/adjudicated parcels)
Return if redeemed: 1% per month plus 5% penalty
Statute: Louisiana Revised Statutes Title 47, Subtitle III

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Historical comps

No historical bucket for LA|Tax Lien

No recorded comps yet for this state/sale type. Run deedpilot-copilot import-history --deep and build-history-index.

Index 2026-08-01 · 87,879 total recorded outcomes

Liens that survive

Tax lien certificate is not ownership. Owner retains title during redemption. Federal liens and other recorded interests require independent analysis. Post-2026 rules limit stacking very old delinquencies into sale price (3-year limit under amended La. law).

Quiet title

After redemption expires and tax deed/adjudication process completes under new statute, quiet title or curative work is typically required for marketable title.

Verify before you bid

This record was compiled from the published sale list. Parcels are pulled, redeemed, and re-priced up to the moment of sale. Confirm the lot is still in the sale, and confirm the opening bid, directly with the county.

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Deal analysis

Your maximum bid

$102,750

Walk away above this. Projected profit at the ceiling: $57,000 (30% of ARV).

Opening bid $1,343

Room to bid $101,407

Confidence: medium — ARV from a provider market estimate, not comps.

History-guided suggestion

$37,796

Under max by $64,954

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Median sold

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p(redeem) prior

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Your assumptions

After-repair value (ARV)

Override the derived estimate with real comps

Rehab budget

You cannot inspect before bidding — budget for the worst plausible condition

Known surviving liens

Municipal code enforcement, special assessments, federal tax liens

Target margin — 30%

Required profit as a share of ARV. 30% is a common floor for tax-sale flips.

How that number is built

Provider market estimate of $190,000. This is an as-is valuation, not an after-repair one — enter your own comparable-sales figure if the property needs work.

After-repair value: $190,000
Selling costs on exitassumed 8.0% of ARV — agent commission plus seller-side closing.: −$15,200
Rehabassumed No rehab budget entered — assumed $0. Tax-sale parcels are sold unseen and un-inspected; this is rarely correct.: −$0
Quiet title (required)assumed Midpoint of the typical LA range ($1,800–$5,000, ~5 months).: −$3,400
Deed recording and transferassumed Typical LA recording and deed issuance cost.: −$250
Holding costs (40 months)assumed Taxes, insurance, and securing the property at ~$285/month.: −$11,400
Surviving liensassumed Assumed $0 — not verified. Municipal code-enforcement liens, special assessments, and federal tax liens can survive the sale.: −$0
Target profit (30% of ARV): −$57,000
Maximum bid: $102,750

If the owner redeems

Flat penalty

You'd receive

$8,631

Window

1095 days

LA sells liens: the expected outcome is redemption with interest, not ownership. Taking title needs a separate foreclosure after 1095 days.

three years from recordation for most property; blighted or abandoned property redeems in eighteen months

Quoted elsewhere as 8% annualised — true only if they redeem on the last possible day and you immediately redeploy the capital. Treat the flat penalty as the real number.

Before you bid

Rehab is assumed to be $0. You cannot inspect these properties before bidding — budget for the worst plausible condition.
Surviving liens assumed $0. THE SYSTEM CHANGED ON 2026-01-01 AND MOST WRITING ABOUT LOUISIANA IS NOW WRONG. Acts 774 and 557 of 2024 replaced the ownership bid-down sale with a tax lien certificate auction. 'Tax sale title' is repealed, no adjudicated property is created after that date, and a bidder no longer ends up owning an undivided percentage of a house. Any guide, course or comparable sale predating 2026 describes the old mechanism.
Louisiana assesses land and residential improvements at 10% and 'other property' at 15%. On a commercial parcel actually assessed at 15%, dividing by 0.10 overstates value by half — the dangerous direction. The homestead exemption also removes a slice of assessed value on an owner-occupied home, so a bare assessed figure there understates the property. Check the classification and whether a homestead exemption is in force before treating a derived ARV as a valuation.

AI risk brief

Reads this parcel against JeffersonCounty's rules and flags what could go wrong — surviving liens, redemption exposure, title cost, and the facts we don't have. Takes about 35 seconds; the result is saved, so opening this lot again is instant.