176 Ridgewood Ave

Middletown, New York, 10940

Tax DeedpendingSells Oct 22, 2026 · in 21 days

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Opening bid

$43,000

Assessed value

$35,000

Land $7,200Improvement $27,800

Market / AVM

$341,000

Taxes owed

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Parcel number: 335200 76-2-7
Case number: —
Land use: Residential
Beds / baths: 3 bd · 1 ba
Building: 1,408 sqft
Acreage: 0.29
Lot size: 12,514 sqft
Year built: 1920
Owner of record: Richard Babcock Sr

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Property detail

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Summary(18)

Id	204,996,066
Beds	3
Baths	1
Equity	$273,801
Flood zone	Yes
Inherited	Yes
High equity	Yes
Last sale date	1998-06-26
Property type	SFR
Equity percent	100

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Orange County rules

Sale type: Hybrid
Redemption: Typically 2 years, varies widely by county/municipality charter
Return if redeemed: Varies — many counties use in-rem deed foreclosure rather than lien certificates; some (e.g., select NYC-area jurisdictions) sell liens
Statute: New York Real Property Tax Law Art. 11

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Historical comps

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Liens that survive

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Quiet title

Quiet title often used after tax-foreclosed deed purchase for marketable title in Hudson Valley markets.

Verify before you bid

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Deal analysis

Your maximum bid

$203,628

Walk away above this. Projected profit at the ceiling: $102,300 (30% of ARV).

Opening bid $43,000

Room to bid $160,628

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

History-guided suggestion

$99,106

Under max by $104,522

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Your assumptions

After-repair value (ARV)

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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 $341,000. 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: $341,000
Selling costs on exitassumed 8.0% of ARV — agent commission plus seller-side closing.: −$27,280
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 NY range ($1,800–$5,000, ~5 months).: −$3,400
Deed recording and transferassumed Typical NY recording and deed issuance cost.: −$300
Holding costs (8 months)assumed Taxes, insurance, and securing the property at ~$512/month.: −$4,092
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): −$102,300
Maximum bid: $203,628

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. THE ASSESSED VALUE IS NOT COMPARABLE ACROSS MUNICIPALITIES. More than 1,200 assessing units each set their own level of assessment, published annually by ORPTS as an equalization rate and a residential assessment ratio. This row assumes 100% as a deliberate floor, so a derived ARV in a low-assessing town is far too low. That is the safe direction, and it makes the derived figure useless as a valuation — get the municipality's rate or supply arvOverride.
DO NOT TRADE OFF A DERIVED ARV IN NEW YORK. Levels of assessment range from a few percent of market value to 100% across more than 1,200 assessing units, and this entry assumes 100% precisely because that is the end of the range that cannot cause an overbid. In a town assessing at 5%, a derived ARV understates the property twentyfold and the max bid will look absurdly low — that is the model refusing to guess, not the parcel being worthless. Look up the municipality's equalization rate or RAR, or supply arvOverride from comparable sales.

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204,996,066

Beds

Baths

Equity

$273,801

Flood zone

Yes

Inherited

Yes

High equity

Yes

Last sale date

1998-06-26

Property type

SFR

Equity percent

100