CHICKASHA — The owner of multiple properties in Chickasha who owns or leases three sites where large quantities of hand sanitizer and hand lotion were destroyed in fires last year owes more than $100,000 in overdue property taxes, online records of the Grady County Treasurer’s Office show.
Brannan Bordwine, Bordwine Development Inc., Bordwine Urban and Rural Development, and Bordwine Farms owed $109,914 in unpaid ad valorem taxes on at least 36 pieces of property in the county as of noon March 29, ledgers reflect. Almost all of the property is in Chickasha.
Bordwine has paid property taxes on many of his properties during the past seven years, records show. For example, on his marijuana farm at 827 Pikes Peak Road he paid $854.90 in ad valorem tax and penalty on March 9, 2022, and $702.46 in property tax and penalty on March 15, 2023. However, Bordwine has not paid ad valorem taxes on at least nine of his properties for the last four years, and taxes have not been paid for at least two years on several other parcels, records show.
The least amount due on any piece of property in any of the last seven years is $3.14 unpaid for Tax Year 2022 on 1.8 acres of land that Brannan and Christal Bordwine own in the Ninnekah School District.
The most owed on any single parcel is $17,688.83 unpaid for Tax Years 2021 and 2022 on Bordwine Development’s principal headquarters at 1102 Pikes Peak Road in Chickasha.
In a lawsuit filed against Brannan Bordwine last year, Grady County Assistant District Attorney Charles Sifers wrote that unpaid ad valorem taxes on Bordwine’s property “will constitute a first lien” against the property, and if the property is sold the proceeds will be used to pay the costs of the sale, “including unpaid real property taxes of Grady County…”
Southwest Ledger left a message for Grady County Treasurer Robin Burton on March 24, but she never returned the call.
So, the Ledger went to the state Legislature’s website and learned that when property taxes are not paid for three or more years, the county treasurer must sell that property at public auction to satisfy the unpaid debt.
Title 68, Section 3105 of State Statutes decrees: The county treasurer shall in all cases … where taxes are a lien upon real property and have been unpaid for a period of three (3) years or more as of the date such taxes first became due and payable, advertise and sell such real estate for such taxes and all other delinquent taxes, special assessments and costs” on the second Monday of June each year.
In Comanche County, for example, the tax sale this June will feature property on which taxes from 2019 have not been paid. Those taxes became due on Dec. 31, 2019, and the property owners were given until October 2020 to pay; afterward a lien was attached to the property.
Bordwine’s financial troubles have involved more than taxes and extend back at least five years, court records show.
• Equity Bank filed a foreclosure petition in Grady County District Court against Brannan D. Bordwine and his Bordwine Development Inc. on March 7, 2022.
As of Feb. 14, 2022, Bordwine Development owed $476,085 on an $870,000 promissory note negotiated with Equity Bank of Tulsa on Oct. 20, 2020, a document shows. “The Note is now in default,” Equity Bank advised the court.
Bordwine mortgaged five pieces of property in Chickasha to secure the loan with Equity Bank, the petition showed.
The lawsuit was dismissed on Aug. 12, 2022; no explanation was provided in court records.
• Sarah White and Inspections Plus of Norman filed suit against Bordwine Farms in Cleveland County District Court on Nov. 26, 2019, over a $3,197.50 unpaid debt for installation of a fire alarm system. The lawsuit was “dismissed/settled” three weeks later, on Dec. 9, 2019, court records show.
• Diamond Ethanol LLC of Levelland, Texas, filed an “Affidavit of Judgment” in Grady County District Court against Brannan Bordwine and Bordwine Development Inc. on March 1, 2018.
The affidavit reported that two months earlier, Diamond Ethanol was awarded a judgment of $45,417 in Hockley County, Texas, against Bordwine and his development company over construction of a building and concrete slab in Levelland.
Diamond Ethanol “paid the entirety” of a $711,073 contract on the project in November 2016 and requested a lien waiver from the defendants. Bordwine “assured” Diamond Ethanol “that all subcontractors were paid.” However, a short time later Diamond Ethanol received a mechanics lien from one subcontractor and subsequently discovered several more.
The judgment was “released in full” on June 15, 2018, court records show. No explanation was provided.