Wyoming · Law checked October 19, 2026

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

Behind on property taxes in Wyoming? 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 Wyoming? 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 Wyoming deadline

How Wyoming sells

The machine, in four lines

Door one: getting the house back (redemption)

Your window: 4 years from the date of the certificate sale — one of the longest redemption windows in the country, counted from the certificate sale date. Statute-verified

What it costs to redeem: The certificate amount + a 3% penalty + interest at 15% per year on the amount sold, plus 15% per year on later taxes the buyer pays and certifies to the treasurer.

Source: Wyo. Stat. §§39-13-108(e), 39-13-109(e)

Before any sale: your quieter doors

Payment plans: No statutory delinquent-tax installment right was verified in the sources read (partial-payment practice varies by county).

Deferrals (senior / veteran / disability): None found. (Wyoming's property tax rebate and assistance programs reduce the bill; they do not defer the lien.)

Door two: the extra money (surplus)

Who holds the money: the Court / sheriff conducting the foreclosure sale.

Your claim window: At the treasurer's certificate sale there is no overbid (the bid is the full delinquent amount). Surplus can arise later, if the lienholder forecloses and the foreclosure sale brings more than the judgment: the balance after the judgment and costs is paid to the persons entitled, on claim made within 2 years after the sale is confirmed. Statute-verified

If nobody claims it: Unclaimed balance after the 2 years is disposed of as the foreclosure statute directs (not pinned further in the sources read).

Source: Wyo. Stat. §39-13-108(d)(iv)(C)

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'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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