Kitsap County, Washington, is holding $470,232.04 in leftover money from properties it sold for unpaid taxes, and the former owners are the ones who can ask for it. Each claim has a clock. Once three years pass from the date of the sale, the county keeps the money for its own budget.
The amounts sit on the county treasurer’s tax foreclosure surplus list, which the county marks as updated daily. The list runs from sales on Jan. 7, 2019 through Jan. 27, 2026 and shows, parcel by parcel, how much of each sale price was left after the tax debt was covered.
What the $470,232 figure means
The $470,232.04 is the total surplus balance across the whole list, not a payment owed to any one person. The treasurer’s list carries 62 rows covering 61 different parcels, with one parcel listed twice. Some rows show a balance of zero because the owner has already been paid…