The Tax Sale Project (TSP) is a 501.c.3 non-profit whose purposes include: (1) acquiring property or rights and interests in property to preserve forest, open space, and agricultural resources; (2) mitigating harm that unnecessarily harsh tax sale procedures cause to families and others; and (3) increasing understanding of government through transparency and otherwise.

TSP’s first project is a property lost by a tax sale that took a family’s entire homestead (nearly 400 acres, including their home) under unnecessarily rushed and otherwise confined procedures, leaving the family with proceeds less than 1/5 what any reasonable procedures would have brought. Beyond its larger policy objectives, TSP’s achievable goals on this specific project are: (1) to acquire from the tax-sale-buyer (and permanently conserve) at least 200 of the acres lost; and (2) return to the family their home as well as permanent access to all of the 200 conserved acres for sugaring and other uses they’d enjoyed before the taking.

TSP intends for this first project to serve as an example of how tax recovery procedures should be reformed to mitigate harm to property owners while conserving forest, open space, and agricultural resources … in many cases (as with our 1st project) as a net benefit to all.

[Please note: This website remains under construction pending negotiation of the first project.]