50059

Texas

Redeemable DeedpendingSells Sep 1, 2026 · 11 days ago

Sale list only has parcel # and opening bid

The clerk published a thin list — not a PropStream-style property card. Max bid needs an after-repair value: enter comps below, open the county appraiser, or fetch details if a property API key is configured.

Opening bid

$8,000

Assessed value

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Market / AVM

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Taxes owed

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Parcel number: 50059
Case number: 29122-B
Land use: —
Building: —
Acreage: —
Lot size: —
Year built: —
Owner of record: —

Legal description

29122-B Central Appraisal District of Taylor County v Ruby Bowen, et al Being Lot 11, Block 5, Original Town of Merkel, Taylor County, Texas (Instrument #2013-00642 of The Official Public Records, Taylor County, Texas),

County records

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

Taylor CAD search ↗search: 50059
Assessor, Collector, Delinquent Taxes, Tax Sales ↗search: 50059
Foreclosure Sales ↗search: 50059
Recorded Document Search ↗search: 50059
Parcel Search and GIS Maps ↗search: 50059
Google Maps (parcel / address search) ↗

Taylor County rules

Sale type: Redeemable Deed
Redemption: 2 years for homestead/ag/mineral properties; 6 months for all other property
Return if redeemed: 25% penalty in year one, 50% in year two (homestead/ag); 25% flat for the 6-month category
Statute: Texas Tax Code Title 1, Subtitle E, Ch. 34

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Historical comps

No historical bucket for TX|Redeemable Deed

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

Redeemable tax deed subject to statutory redemption (180 days standard; 2 years homestead/ag/mineral with 25%/50% premiums). HOA/POA liens can survive if not properly joined; federal tax liens survive (IRS rights). Post-judgment taxes may remain. Full title search mandatory.

Quiet title

Common after redemption expires for insurable title; sheriff tax deeds are no-warranty instruments.

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.

Taylor County Tax Assessor-Collector / CAD tax-sale postings ↗

Deal analysis

Your maximum bid

$8,422

Walk away above this. Projected profit at the ceiling: $6,168 (30% of ARV).

Opening bid $8,000

Room to bid $422

Confidence: low — built on an assumed floor from the opening bid, not a valuation of this parcel.

History-guided suggestion

Pass

History + oracle say stay out or wait — do not chase.

History sample

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Median sold

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p(redeem) prior

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No historical bucket for TX|Redeemable Deed; suggestion uses oracle only.
No positive suggested bid under ceiling — pass.

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

Assumed floor, not a valuation of this parcel. No assessed value, provider estimate or comps were available, so this is the opening bid of $8,000 times 2.57 — the conservative quartile of the value-to-opening-bid ratio across 669 TX parcels where both figures are known (measured 2026-08-11). The middle half of those parcels ran 2.57x to 10.99x, so the true figure could plausibly be $87,920. Treat this as a starting magnitude for research, never as a reason to bid — enter real comps before you do.

Assumed floor (not an ARV): $20,560assumed
Selling costs on exitassumed 8.0% of ARV — agent commission plus seller-side closing.: −$1,645
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 TX range ($1,800–$5,000, ~5 months).: −$3,400
Deed recording and transferassumed Typical TX recording and deed issuance cost.: −$400
Holding costs (7 months)assumed Taxes, insurance, and securing the property at ~$75/month.: −$525
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): −$6,168
Maximum bid: $8,422

If the owner redeems

Flat penalty

25%

You'd receive

$2,106

Window

730 days

A 25% flat penalty applies if the owner redeems. It is a penalty, not annual interest — the rate does not change with how early they redeem.

homestead and agricultural-use property (2 years); all other property is 180 days

Quoted elsewhere as 51% 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 180-day vs 2-year window turns on the property's use at the time of sale, which the sale list does not state — treat any homestead-looking residential parcel as potentially 2-year.
This ceiling rests on an assumed floor, not a valuation of this parcel. It is a research starting point, not a green light — get comps or an assessor figure before bidding.

AI risk brief

Reads this parcel against TaylorCounty'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.