How can we sell our house with a IRS tax lein?

[srvnhim]

We are in Virginia.

We have a couple of Federal IRS tax leins on our house totalling about $35,000. We have enough equity in our house to pay that amount if we sold our house. We know you cannot sell a house with leins but are wondering if there is a way around that if the IRS knows they will be receiving pay off on the leins?

We not only want to sell to get Uncle Sam off our backs, but we would like to move into a nicer area so the IRS is not the only reason we want to move.

How should we proceed?

Originally Posted by srvnhim

We are in Virginia.

We have a couple of Federal IRS tax leins on our house totalling about $35,000. We have enough equity in our house to pay that amount if we sold our house. We know you cannot sell a house with leins but are wondering if there is a way around that if the IRS knows they will be receiving pay off on the leins?

We not only want to sell to get Uncle Sam off our backs, but we would like to move into a nicer area so the IRS is not the only reason we want to move.

How should we proceed?

Contact the IRS office that put the lien on your land. Work with them and show them that the lien will be paid off at closing.

Actually, the IRS is being pretty reasonable about this these days.

Get everything in writing.