The town has to give you months of notice
Before a Connecticut town can sell your property for back taxes, state law requires it to publish notice in a newspaper three separate weeks — the first no less than nine weeks before the sale — and to send certified mail to you and to every lienholder of record at least twice. If you have received those notices, the sale is still weeks or months away. If you have not, it is further away than that.
Even after a sale, there is a six-month redemption period
A tax sale does not immediately transfer your house. The winning bidder waits six months, during which you or a lienholder can redeem by paying the full amount plus statutory interest. That is a real second chance, though it requires paying more than the original debt, which is difficult for most people who could not pay the original debt.
The tax bill is usually small next to the house
We routinely see delinquencies of two to thirty thousand dollars against houses worth hundreds of thousands. If you sell, the taxes get paid out of the proceeds at closing and you keep what is left. If the process runs its course, the town gets paid first and the outcome stops being yours to direct. Call your tax collector for an exact payoff figure — they will give it to you and it costs nothing.
And a fair warning about your mail
Once a tax sale notice publishes, your address becomes public and you will get a great deal of mail from people who want to buy your house. Most of it is from companies hundreds of miles away, and some of it is from companies that do not buy houses at all and simply sell your phone number to a list. You can check whether someone is a registered wholesaler with the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection.
We will not be the highest number you can get for your house. A house in good condition, listed on the open market with time to wait, will beat us. That is simply true and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.
What we offer instead is certainty and no work: no repairs, no cleanout, no showings, no commission, no financing that can fall through. If we think listing it would net you more, we will tell you that — and then you should go do that.
We buy with our own funds and take title. We are not a wholesaler, we do not put your house under contract and shop it to somebody else, and we are not a lead service that sells your phone number to a list of investors.
Since July 2026 Connecticut requires anyone who does that to register with the Department of Consumer Protection and hand you a state disclosure form before you sign anything. If someone is knocking on your door, it is worth asking which one they are.
How it works
Call, text, or send the form. Tell us the address and roughly what is going on. It takes five minutes and commits you to nothing.
Usually within a couple of days. You do not clean, fix, or move anything first. We are looking at the house, not at your housekeeping.
Normally within a day of the walkthrough, in writing, with how we got there. No inspection contingency, so the number does not change later.
Take it, leave it, or think about it for six months. If you sign, our contract gives you three days to cancel for any reason — nobody requires that of us, and we do it anyway.
Towns we buy in
Questions we get
Will you pay off the back taxes?
They get paid at closing out of the purchase price, the same as a mortgage would be. The number we quote you accounts for them.
How do I find out exactly what I owe?
Call your town's tax collector or revenue collector directly and ask for a payoff figure. It is free, it is the accurate number, and you should have it before talking to any buyer.
Tell us about the house
No obligation, and no pressure afterward. If we are not the right answer for you, we will say so.
Six questions, about two minutes, and you do not need any paperwork in front of you — the address is enough to start. We answer personally, usually the same day. We do not sell or share your information with anyone.