617 E Temperance St

Kent, Washington, 98030

Tax DeedpendingSells Oct 10, 2026 · today

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Beds: 3
Baths: 1
SqFt: 1,720
Lot Size: 10,665
Year Built: 1909
APN: 161250-0165

Property Type: Sfr
Distressed: No
Vacant: No
Owner Type: Individual
Owner Status: Owner Occupied
Length of Ownership: 24 Years 8 Months
Purchase Method: Cash Purchase
County: King

Value

Estimated Value: $629,000
County Market Value: $514,000; 2025
Assessed Value: $514,000; 2025

Mortgage & Debt

Open Mortgages: 0
Estimated Balance: $0
Lien Flags: None recorded; RealEstateAPI flags · not a lien search
Tax Delinquent Since: 2022

Last Sale

Document Type: Intrafamily Transfer

Opportunity

Opening Bid: $58,354
Bid / Value: 9%; of $629,000
Property Tax 2025: $5,537; annual bill · not the amount owed
Equity (est.): $629,000; 100%
Monthly Rent: $2,953; Suggested rent
Gross Yield: 5.63%

Opening bid

$58,354

Assessed value

$514,000

Land $255,000Improvement $259,000

Market / AVM

$629,000

Property tax 2025

$5,537

Annual bill — the sale list gives no amount owed

Property facts enriched via realestateapi · 9/29/2026

Ownership Information

Owner 1 Name: Kimberly Portera
Mailing Address: 617 E Temperance St, Kent, WA 98030
Owner Type: Individual
Corporate Owned: No

Property Characteristics

Bedrooms: 3
Total Bathrooms: 1
Heating Type

Deal analysis

Sale Date	Recorded	Document	Doc #	Arm's Length	Method	Buyer	Seller
12/14/2001	01/07/2002	Intrafamily Transfer	20020107001140	No	Cash Purchase	Kimberly L Portera	Charles J Portera
03/22/2000	04/05/2000	Intrafamily Transfer	20000405000034	No	Cash Purchase	Charles J Portera	Kimberly L Portera

Your maximum bid

$380,669

Walk away above this. Projected profit at the ceiling: $188,700 (30% of ARV).

Opening bid $58,354

Room to bid $322,315

Confidence: medium — ARV from a provider market estimate, not comps.

History-guided suggestion

$172,053

Under max by $208,616

≤ oracle maxBid

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Your assumptions

After-repair value (ARV)

Override the derived estimate with real comps

Rehab budget

You cannot inspect before bidding — budget for the worst plausible condition

Known surviving liens

Municipal code enforcement, special assessments, federal tax liens

Target margin — 30%

Required profit as a share of ARV. 30% is a common floor for tax-sale flips.

How that number is built

Provider market estimate of $629,000. This is an as-is valuation, not an after-repair one — enter your own comparable-sales figure if the property needs work.

After-repair value: $629,000
Selling costs on exitassumed 8.0% of ARV — agent commission plus seller-side closing.: −$50,320
Rehabassumed No rehab budget entered — assumed $0. Tax-sale parcels are sold unseen and un-inspected; this is rarely correct.: −$0
Quiet title (required)assumed Midpoint of the typical WA range ($1,800–$5,000, ~5 months).: −$3,400
Deed recording and transferassumed Typical WA recording and deed issuance cost.: −$250
Holding costs (6 months)assumed Taxes, insurance, and securing the property at ~$944/month.: −$5,661
Surviving liensassumed Assumed $0 — not verified. Municipal code-enforcement liens, special assessments, and federal tax liens can survive the sale.: −$0
Target profit (30% of ARV): −$188,700
Maximum bid: $380,669

Before you bid

Rehab is assumed to be $0. You cannot inspect these properties before bidding — budget for the worst plausible condition.
Surviving liens assumed $0. A WASHINGTON TAX DEED CAN BE UNWOUND FOR THREE YEARS AND THE RECORD WILL NOT WARN YOU. RCW 84.64.070: "If the real property of any minor, or any person adjudicated to be legally incompetent, be sold for nonpayment of taxes, the same may be redeemed at any time within three years after the date of sale." Nothing in a title search reveals that a former owner was a minor or had been adjudicated incompetent, so this is a latent claim on every Washington parcel for three years. It is the reason quietTitle is marked required in a state whose deed is otherwise clean.
This is the most trustworthy derived ARV in the file — full market value, revalued every year — but the parcel is only physically inspected once every six years, so an annual revaluation is a model applied to a property nobody has looked at recently. On a tax-foreclosure parcel, where deterioration is the norm and is exactly what a model of comparable sales will miss, the assessment is likely to describe a building in better condition than the one being sold. Farm, agricultural, timber and open space land also has its own valuation basis outside RCW 84.40.030 and will sit far below market.

617 E Temperance St

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Ownership Information

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617 E Temperance St

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