Properties Purchased During Tax Deed Sale
Abandoned Buildings
There’s a new owner of the abandoned property lots located on First Avenue South in Wolf Point. Local developer Curtis Forrest was the top bidder of the two lots during a tax deed sale held by the Roosevelt County commissioners on Monday, April 6.
Forrest’s goal is to improve the properties where fires and violent crimes have allegedly taken place during the last couple of years.
“I see a lot of my people there struggling,” Forrest said after the meeting.
He hopes to create something health related at the locations. He mentioned gaining the potential assistance of the Fort Peck Tribes.
After no one made the minimum bid of $1,000 for the lots during the traditional tax deed sale, Commissioner Gordon Oelkers said properties could be sold at a negotiated price if they had been previously been offered at least twice by the county.
Wolf Point Mayor Chris Dschaak, acting as a private citizen, made an initial bid of $1 for each lot. He noted that the low bid was due to the gravity of cleanup needed.
Dschaak and Forrest then kept bidding for the lots. When the bid went to $550, Dschaak said to Forrest, “If they are going to get cleaned up, I will stop [bidding]. But I want it done before Stampede.”
Forrest agreed and made the final bid of $560. The two men then shook hands.
“That’s all I care about it,” Dschaak said of having the locations cleaned up.
Forrest also purchased a lot at Township 27 North for $200.
Skyline Real Estate purchased three lots on East Edgar Street for $250 each. Skyline purchased four other properties as well.
Dschaak purchased a lot on 731 Second Avenue North for $50.
