12265 E Marginal Way S

Tukwila, Washington, 98168

Tax DeedpendingSells Oct 10, 2026 · today

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SqFt: 3,000
Lot Size: 9,971
Year Built: 1961
APN: 734560-0005

Property Type: Other
Distressed: No
Vacant: No
Owner Type: Individual
Length of Ownership: 8 Years 6 Months
Purchase Method: Cash Purchase
County: King

Value

Estimated Value: $302,300
County Market Value: $302,300; 2025
Assessed Value: $302,300; 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: Warranty Deed

Opportunity

Opening Bid: $17,446
Bid / Value: 6%; of $302,300
Property Tax 2025: $4,809; annual bill · not the amount owed
Equity (est.): $302,300; 100%
Linked Properties: 6

Opening bid

$17,446

Assessed value

$302,300

Land $246,800Improvement $55,500

Market / AVM

$302,300

Property tax 2025

$4,809

Annual bill — the sale list gives no amount owed

Property facts enriched via realestateapi · 9/29/2026

Ownership Information

Owner 1 Name: Christopher Cook
Mailing Address: 1417 31st Ave S, Seattle, WA 98144
Owner Type: Individual
Corporate Owned: No

Property Characteristics

Heating Type: Forced Air Unit
Construction Type: Frame

Deal analysis

Sale Date	Recorded	Amount	Document	Doc #	Arm's Length	Method	Buyer	Seller
03/21/2018	03/28/2018		Warranty Deed	20180328000794	No	Cash Purchase	Christopher Cook	Janice L Sato, Eddie T Sato
06/19/2017	06/30/2017		Intrafamily Transfer	20170630000619	No	Cash Purchase	Christopher Cook	Christopher Cook, Mari K Cook
06/14/1994	06/30/1994	$135,000	Other	9406301476	Yes	Cash Purchase	Christopher Cook, Mari K Cook	Eddie T Sato, Janice L Sato
06/14/1994	06/30/1994		Quit Claim Deed	9406301475	No	Cash Purchase	Eddie T Sato, Janice L Sato	Janis L Pupo
03/03/1994	03/17/1994	$10,000	Quit Claim Deed	9403172184	No	Cash Purchase	Eddie T Sato	Frank D Pupo

Your maximum bid

$181,055

Walk away above this. Projected profit at the ceiling: $90,690 (30% of ARV).

Opening bid $17,446

Room to bid $163,609

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

History-guided suggestion

$75,647

Under max by $105,408

≤ oracle maxBid

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

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No historical bucket for WA|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 $302,300. 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: $302,300
Selling costs on exitassumed 8.0% of ARV — agent commission plus seller-side closing.: −$24,184
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 ~$453/month.: −$2,721
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): −$90,690
Maximum bid: $181,055

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.

12265 E Marginal Way S

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12265 E Marginal Way S

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