We buy houses in Caddo County, OK

Caddo County tax bills go out in November or early December. You can pay in full by December 31, or pay half then and half by March 31. A bill of $25 or less must be paid in full.

Miss a deadline and a penalty of 1.5 percent a month starts. Not getting a bill does not excuse the tax.

After three years unpaid, the Treasurer must put the land in the yearly resale (68 O.S. 3105). It runs on the second Monday of June, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., in the Treasurer's office. Bidding opens at the full amount owed, and land nobody buys is deeded to the county.

The old October certificate sale is gone. Until the resale auction starts, you can still redeem by paying the back tax, interest and costs (68 O.S. 3113).

Your rate depends on your school district. For 2024, the levies used in fiscal year 2025 ran from 74.60 mills in Cyril to 113.04 in Fort Cobb-Broxton. Anadarko was 86.77 and Hinton was 102.02.

A homestead takes $1,000 off the assessed value of the home you live in (68 O.S. 2889). By our own math, that saves about $87 a year at Anadarko's 2024 levy.

File with the Assessor by March 15, or within 30 days of a notice that your value went up. Once granted, you do not reapply while you stay (68 O.S. 2892).

The state deed tax is 75 cents for each $500 of the price (68 O.S. 3201). We figured that as $150 on a $100,000 sale.

Oil has been part of land here for over a century. The Cement field was found in 1911 and had 100 producing wells by 1924. Gracemont, Carnegie, Lookeba and Hydro each saw short oil booms later on.

So many deeds here carry old mineral splits. When an owner of split-off minerals dies, an heir may file an affidavit of death and heirship with the county clerk (58 O.S. 393).

A manufactured home on your own land can lose its car-style title. Service Oklahoma Form 756 does this for a $5 fee.

The form has firm limits:

• the land and the home must have the same owner
• no active lien can show on the title
• the county assessor must sign and seal it
• you file within 60 days of that sign-off

Caddo County sits mostly in the Gypsum Hills and Red Bed Plains, drained by the Washita River. The weather service keeps a long list of tornadoes here.

On April 17, 1976, an F4 tornado touched down 8 miles west of Apache. It ran 33 miles, past Broxton, before it lifted. On May 24, 2011, an EF3 crossed the land near Lookeba.

If a tornado with a presidential disaster declaration took your home and you bought another in Oklahoma, the March 15 homestead deadline relaxes. You may file as late as June 1 of the next year (68 O.S. 2892).

If your house still shows storm damage, tell any buyer and keep your repair records.