Kansas · Law checked October 19, 2026

Kansas tax sale: your deadline, your office, your money

Behind on property taxes in Kansas? Your house can be sold at a tax sale — here's how much time you have to stop it. Your house was sold at a tax sale in Kansas? The extra money from the sale may be yours to claim — and there's a deadline. Both answers are on this page, from the statute.

Count my Kansas deadline

How Kansas sells

The machine, in four lines

Door one: getting the house back (redemption)

Redemption in Kansas runs until the deed is issued — 2 years from the sale at which the county bid the property off (1 year for an abandoned building or structure) — and once a foreclosure case is filed, you can still redeem any time before the day of the foreclosure sale itself Statute-verified

What it costs to redeem: The amount the property was sold for + accrued interest + all later delinquent taxes and assessments with interest + the costs and expenses of the sale and redemption, including abstracting costs.

Source: Kan. Stat. §79-2401a; §79-2803

Before any sale: your quieter doors

Payment plans: No state payment-plan right found — county discretion.

Deferrals (senior / veteran / disability): None found.

Door two: the extra money (surplus)

No general owner surplus right found in Kansas law. In the statute text read (Kan. Stat. §79-2805), foreclosure-sale proceeds are apportioned to the taxing funds — costs first — and no owner claim window appears. If your sale left money over, ask the clerk of the district court in writing what the distribution order says; do not pay a company a percentage on the strength of this gap before you have that answer.

Source: Kan. Stat. §79-2805

The county figure rule. This page gives you the law — the window, the formula, the office. The exact payoff or surplus figure lives in the County treasurer (bid-off); sheriff on district court order (foreclosure sale)'s books and changes as interest runs. Ask that office for the figure, in writing, and keep the letter.

Included in the $49 TaxSaleDecoded Kit

  • The surplus claim pack: how to prove the house was yours (deed records, address history, ID), the claim-form path in your state, and what to do when the county says it has no record of your money
  • The redemption playbook: your state's window and cost formula worked step by step, who to pay, how to prove you paid, and the traps in the payoff figure (added fees and interest)
  • The heirs page: the house was a parent's — what changes, which papers prove you are an heir, and the point where it stops being simple
  • The scam shield: how surplus-recovery companies work, the fee caps your state sets for them, and the assignment papers you should never sign
  • The lookback module: what Tyler won, what Pung limited (the extra money is the sale price minus the debt — not your home's value), and the dated state lookbacks, including Illinois claims that die in July 2028

Get the TaxSaleDecoded Kit — $49

One payment of $49. No subscription. The kit is a web page you can return to and print — the claim pack, the redemption playbook, the heirs page, and the scam shield.

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