1043 Fruit Ave

Farrell, Pennsylvania, 16121

Tax DeedpendingSells Oct 20, 2026 · in 12 days

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Beds: 2
Baths: 1
SqFt: 0
Lot Size: 3,305
APN: 52 425 568

Property Type: Other
Distressed: No
Vacant: No
Owner Type: Company
Owner Status: Absentee (In State)
County: Mercer

Value

Estimated Value: $20,000
County Market Value: $4,950; 2026
Assessed Value: $4,950; 2026

Mortgage & Debt

Open Mortgages: 1
Estimated Balance: $35,000
Lien Flags: None recorded; RealEstateAPI flags · not a lien search

Last Sale

MLS: $9,900; 05/16/2024

Opportunity

Opening Bid: $6,332
Bid / Value: 32%; of $20,000
Property Tax 2026: $679; annual bill · not the amount owed
Equity (est.): $0; 0%
Monthly Rent: $830; HUD fair market rent (2 bd)
Gross Yield: 49.80%
Linked Properties: 8

Opening bid

$6,332

Assessed value

$4,950

Land $450Improvement $4,500

Market / AVM

$20,000

Property tax 2026

$679

Annual bill — the sale list gives no amount owed

Property facts enriched via realestateapi · 10/5/2026

Ownership Information

Owner 1 Name: Sipe Investments Properties, Llc
Mailing Address: 408 Yoder Rd, New Wilmington, PA 16142
Owner Type: Company
Corporate Owned: Yes

Property Characteristics

Bedrooms: 2
Total Bathrooms: 1
Garage Type

Deal analysis

Date	Status	Price	Days on Market	Agent	Office
05/16/2024	Closed	$9,900	3,181	Paul Masters	INTERSTATE REAL ESTATE SERVICES, INC.

Recorded	Position	Amount	Type	Lender	Term	Maturity	Doc #
05/13/2026	First	$35,000	Unknown	Towpath Development Partners Llc	30	01/01/2029	2026-00003613

Recorded	Position	Amount	Type	Lender	Term	Maturity	Doc #	Open
05/13/2026	First	$35,000	Unknown	Towpath Development Partners Llc	30	01/01/2029	2026-00003613	Yes

Your maximum bid

$8,450

Walk away above this. Projected profit at the ceiling: $6,000 (30% of ARV).

Opening bid $6,332

Room to bid $2,118

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

History-guided suggestion

$6,841

Under max by $1,609

≤ oracle maxBid

Co-pilot target using recorded auction history. Never above your maximum bid.

History sample

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Median sold

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p(redeem) prior

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No historical bucket for PA|Tax Deed; suggestion uses oracle only.

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 $20,000. 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: $20,000
Selling costs on exitassumed 8.0% of ARV — agent commission plus seller-side closing.: −$1,600
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 PA range ($1,500–$5,000, ~4 months).: −$3,250
Deed recording and transferassumed Typical PA recording and deed issuance cost.: −$250
Holding costs (6 months)assumed Taxes, insurance, and securing the property at ~$75/month.: −$450
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): −$6,000
Maximum bid: $8,450

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. UPSET SALE vs JUDICIAL SALE is the single most important distinction in Pennsylvania and this row cannot express it. An upset sale (72 P.S. §§ 5860.601-609) conveys subject to existing mortgages, judgments and liens, which are NOT divested; a judicial sale (§§ 5860.610-612) is ordered free and clear. Establish which one a parcel is in before treating survivingLiens as zero.
Pennsylvania county assessments run against base years that can be decades stale, and the spread is extreme — Bucks assesses at about 5.6% of market and Schuylkill at 100%, an 18x range inside one state. The Common Level Ratio is a county MEDIAN published for realty transfer tax equalisation, not a per-parcel appraisal, so deriving ARV from it multiplies any error in that one parcel's assessment by the factor: in Bucks a $50,000 assessment derives an ARV near $893,000. Treat a derived ARV in a high-factor county as a research lead, not a valuation, and get comparable sales before bidding.
PA has 67 counties on a different assessment ratio (42001, 42003, 42005, 42007, 42009, 42011, 42013, 42015, 42017, 42019, 42021, 42023, 42025, 42027, 42029, 42031, 42033, 42035, 42037, 42039, 42041, 42043, 42045, 42047, 42049, 42051, 42053, 42055, 42057, 42059, 42061, 42063, 42065, 42067, 42069, 42071, 42073, 42075, 42077, 42079, 42081, 42083, 42085, 42087, 42089, 42091, 42093, 42095, 42097, 42099, 42101, 42103, 42105, 42107, 42109, 42111, 42113, 42115, 42117, 42119, 42121, 42123, 42125, 42127, 42129, 42131, 42133). No FIPS was supplied, so the statewide ratio was used — pass `fips` if this parcel is in one of them.

1043 Fruit Ave

Value

Mortgage & Debt

Last Sale

Opportunity

Ownership Information

Property Characteristics

1043 Fruit Ave

Value

Mortgage & Debt

Last Sale

Opportunity

Ownership Information

Property Characteristics

Land/Location Information

Legal Description

Tax Assessment Information

Distress Flags

Listing

MLS History

Area

Fair Market Rents

Tax Assessment Information

Open Mortgages

Mortgage History

County records

Mercer County rules

Historical comps

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