Multnomah surplus funds: use the county form, and skip the closed settlement deadline

Multnomah County’s Assessment, Recording and Taxation division posts a surplus-funds claim form. The county says a change in the law may let a former owner or other claimant ask for excess money after a tax-foreclosed property is sold. The form is the county’s process. Notice Nearby is not the place to file.

The county page tells you to send the completed form and the required papers to Tax Title at the Division of Assessment, Recording and Taxation in Portland, or to email the staff member named on that page. The page was last reviewed by the county on October 18, 2023. That is old. Open the form page again before you mail anything. Staff names and room details can change. Do not rely on a dollar amount you heard secondhand. The form itself asks you to fill in the auction date, the account, and the amount you claim. Those facts come from your records and the county, not from this brief.

A separate federal class settlement, Lynch v. Multnomah County, covered some surplus-proceeds claims for properties foreclosed and sold between October 12, 2017, and June 25, 2025. The county’s summary notice set the claim deadline at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on Monday, January 12, 2026. That date has passed. Do not send a new Lynch settlement claim based on this brief. If you think you still have rights, ask the county or a lawyer. This page is not that advice.

The live Notice Nearby hub already has a short card titled “October surplus property list.” That card does not quote a current list. Do not invent parcel numbers to fill it. If the county posts an October list, link the PDF and describe only what the PDF shows.

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