Nevada · Law checked October 19, 2026

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

Behind on property taxes in Nevada? 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 Nevada? 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 Nevada deadline

How Nevada sells

The machine, in four lines

Door one: getting the house back (redemption)

Redemption in Nevada runs until the deed is issued — 2 years after the certificate issues to the county treasurer as trustee (1 year if the property is determined abandoned). There is no redemption after the treasurer's deed and sale Being double-checked

What it costs to redeem: Taxes and later taxes, penalties and costs, with interest on the taxes at 10% per year assessed monthly.

Source: NRS 361.585; 361.567

Before any sale: your quieter doors

Payment plans: Current taxes are payable in quarterly installments by statute; no separate delinquent-tax plan was pinned in this research.

Deferrals (senior / veteran / disability): Yes — the property tax postponement program (NRS 361.736–361.7398): eligible single-family homeowners may postpone taxes until sale, death, or leaving the home, at 6% interest.

Door two: the extra money (surplus)

Who holds the money: the County treasurer (interest-bearing excess-proceeds account).

Your claim window: 1 year after the treasurer's deed is recorded, by written claim. Know the skim: the county first takes $300 of the excess plus 10% of the next $10,000 for its general fund; then recorded lienholders are paid, then the former owner class. Statute-verified

If nobody claims it: If no claim is made within the year, the money is paid into the county general fund and and the statute bars paying it out to the former owner afterward.

Finder-fee protection: For a property that was your main home, an agreement to have someone recover the excess for you is capped at 10% of the excess due to you (NRS 361.610(11)).

Source: NRS 361.610

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 (as trustee)'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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