Tarrant County Foreclosure Sales Fall on Nov. 3 and Dec. 1, 2026

Two Notices Come Before a Foreclosure Sale on Your Tarrant Home

If you live in the house, a certified letter comes before any sale notice. Texas Property Code Section 51.002 requires your mortgage servicer to send it. It has to say you're in default and give you at least 20 days to cure before a notice of sale can go out.

The day it's mailed counts as day one, and the law treats the letter as served once it goes into the United States mail, addressed to your last known address. So days can pass before you open it.

Then comes the notice of sale. It has to go out at least 21 days before the sale, posted at the courthouse door and filed with the county clerk, with a copy mailed to you by certified mail. The sale is a public auction between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on the first Tuesday of a month, or the first Wednesday when that Tuesday falls on January 1 or July 4.

Add the two notice periods. That's 41 days. It's the shortest gap the law allows between mailing the default notice and a sale.

In Tarrant County, those sales happen at the base of the courthouse steps on the west side of the building at 100 West Weatherford Street in downtown Fort Worth.

The next two first Tuesdays are November 3 and December 1, 2026, so a notice of sale for November 3 has to be posted by October 13, and one for December 1 has to be posted by November 10.

Your first decision comes inside those 20 days. Cure the default, or plan for the sale calendar.

Tarrant County Listings Took a Median 57 Days in September 2026

Realtor.com counted a median of 57 days on market for Tarrant County listings in September 2026, a figure FRED posted on October 1, 2026.

That's one day under September 2025's 58. Flat, year over year. Next to the Septembers of 2021 through 2023, which ran 35 to 41 days, it's long.

Realtor.com counts from the day a home is listed to the day it closes, goes pending or comes off the market, whichever its data shows. Pending isn't closed. And 57 is a countywide median. Not a forecast for your house.

If a notice of sale names your date, count the days left and hold them up against 57. We count a listing's time from the day it's listed to the day the sale closes, and to us, a listing is time spent for a shot at a higher price.

If you list, price against the Tarrant homes buyers are picking right now. In our view, the best value in a group of similar homes gets the first offers, and weeks of showings with no offer tell us the price sits above the homes buyers took instead.

That's the second decision. List only if your calendar can hold the time a listing takes.

Put Both Offers and a Listing Next to Your Sale Date

Once a sale date is set, time is what you're protecting. Get a closing date on paper.

Cash Flow Deals puts two offers in front of you, and you pick. The Cash offer is our price for the house as it stands. We buy it, and we close. The Premium offer is a bigger number, paid by a real FHA or conventional homebuyer through novation. While the 15 business days of inspection run, the home may be listed, and a licensed agent brings each buyer to showings that are set with you in advance and take 10 to 15 minutes. We think the Premium number runs higher because the house gets in front of buyers who finance with a lender.

Neither offer promises a closing before your sale date. So ask early.

What Cash Flow Deals puts in writing:

1. Inspection: you get 15 business days on either offer.

2. Closing: 45 days or less. You help pick the day.

3. Cash offer: the house never goes on the market. Our team walks it once, and you get our as-is number on paper.

4. Premium offer: we agree on a number and sign, and you give us permission to bring in a buyer in our place. The home may be listed during the inspection period, and a licensed agent brings each buyer to showings set with you ahead of time, 10 to 15 minutes each. Once a real FHA or conventional buyer is ready, that buyer signs a new contract with you directly, and title moves one time, from you to that buyer. Their lender funds the purchase.

5. If that buyer's financing falls through, you can still choose the Cash offer.

6. Fees: neither offer pays Cash Flow Deals a listing commission, and on a Premium sale, our fee shows up as its own line on the closing statement.

7. Your number: you get the amount you agree to, and we'll handle any costs on top of that. The one exception: if something structural surfaces that was not visible or disclosed before we signed — foundation issues, hidden moisture, old wiring, cast-iron drain failure — we re-cost it and bring the number back to you. You decide. You can walk away. We disclose what we know at offer time so this almost never happens.

If you list instead, your listing agreement sets the commission. Last decision: put each closing date next to the sale date on your notice, then pick the one you can keep.