When a property owners fails to pay their property taxes, they are usually given an ample period of time to rectify the situation – at least a year in most cases, and often many years. If they fail to make arrangements to pay the taxes, the government will sell the deed to their property at tax sale (or a lien on the property, in tax lien states) to the highest bidder at tax sale.
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