City’s auction goes online [North Florida]
For years, those who wanted delinquent tax certificates waited for the week in May in which they could invade the county courthouse and bid Wall Street-style for those certificates pertaining to properties all over Duval County. The process was the 4-5 day auction in which delinquent tax deeds were sold to the highest bidder. Often, things got loud and heated and the auction took on a stock exchange look and atmosphere.
“There was all that hollering and screaming,” said Alvin Crooms, manager of property taxes and occupational licenses for the Tax Collector’s Office.