Liens, Taxes & Title
When Cuyahoga County sells a tax lien certificate, a private company holds the right to collect your back taxes. You can still sell. Here is who to call, what the payoff includes, and how the clock works.
Liens, Taxes & Title
Ohio property taxes are billed a year behind. That is why a closing statement can show a tax credit to the buyer even when your bills are paid. Here is how it works in Cuyahoga County.
Liens, Taxes & Title
You paid the loan off years ago, and now the title search says the mortgage is still there. Ohio gives lenders 90 days to record a release, and gives you a way to push them. Here is how it works.
Liens, Taxes & Title
Ohio values qualifying farmland for tax at its farm-use value, not market value. When that land is converted, the county charges back three years of tax savings. Here is how that works when you sell.
Liens, Taxes & Title
Depreciation lowers your tax while you own a rental, then lowers your basis when you sell. Here is how federal law treats that gain, why depreciation you never claimed still counts, and the 25 percent rate that applies.
Liens, Taxes & Title
When the seller of a U.S. house is a foreign person, federal law makes the buyer hold back part of the price for the IRS. Here is how FIRPTA withholding works, when it is reduced or skipped, and what U.S. sellers sign instead.
Liens, Taxes & Title
When one person has the right to live in a house for life and others get it afterward, a sale needs more than one signature. Ohio law gives a court route when they cannot agree, and an affidavit route once the life tenant has died.
Liens, Taxes & Title
A 1031 exchange lets a landlord put off tax on the gain from selling a rental by buying another investment property. The deadlines are strict, and the money cannot pass through your hands. Here is how it works.
Liens, Taxes & Title
An Ohio child support lien attaches to real estate once it is filed with the county recorder. It does not stop a sale, but it has to be paid or released before the buyer gets clear title. Here is how the statute works.
Liens, Taxes & Title
Yes. An IRS lien attaches to your house, but federal law gives you two ways through a sale: pay it from the proceeds and get a release, or ask the IRS for a certificate of discharge when the sale will not cover it.
Liens, Taxes & Title
A title search turns up a mineral reservation from 1912 and the closing stalls. Ohio has a statute that can deem a long-dormant mineral interest abandoned and vest it back in the surface owner — with a notice, a twenty-year test and a tight filing window.
Liens, Taxes & Title
Ohio gives anyone selling a house the right to demand a meter reading and a final water bill within ten days. It also limits when an unpaid bill can be put on your tax duplicate at all — and gives you a way to get a wrong one removed.
Liens, Taxes & Title
Ten days late is enough. And your payments go to interest and legal fees before they touch the principal — which is why the balance seems never to move.
Liens, Taxes & Title
The property tax reduction for owners 65 and over follows the person, not the house — so a buyer does not inherit it, and the tax bill changes hands upward.
Liens, Taxes & Title
Ohio has a cheap recorded affidavit for gaps in the record and a court action for genuine adverse claims. Using the wrong one wastes months.
Liens, Taxes & Title
Ohio gives a house owner a move most people never hear about: make the lienholder sue within 60 days, or the lien is void and the property wholly discharged.
Liens, Taxes & Title
All four Ohio deed forms hand over the same thing. What changes is what you promise — and an executor's deed promises something different again.
Liens, Taxes & Title
Most sellers owe nothing. The federal rule excludes up to $250,000 of gain — $500,000 for many couples — and inherited houses usually show almost no gain at all.
Liens, Taxes & Title
Yes — a lien is a claim on the proceeds, not a padlock on the deed. But the "judgment liens expire after five years" you have read is wrong, and it matters.
Liens, Taxes & Title
Yes — unpaid taxes are a lien, and liens get paid at closing. The more useful question is whether you still qualify for the payment plan Ohio law entitles you to.
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