PER CURIAM:
Ronald Fitzjohn appeals the circuit court's denial of his Rule 60(b), SCRCP, motion, arguing the circuit court erred in finding a two-year limitation period barred his action. We affirm.
After the previous owner of real property (the Property) defaulted on a mortgage loan and failed to pay property taxes, the lender and the Horry County Delinquent Tax Collector (Tax Collector) commenced separate collection proceedings. In November of 2003 Gary Player, a/k/a Gerald Player, purchased the Property at a tax sale. Three months later, Ronald Fitzjohn purchased the Property from the lender following a foreclosure sale.
Five years after the tax sale, Fitzjohn filed an action against Player to set aside the tax sale for alleged defects in the tax sale proceedings. On March 20, 2009, the circuit court dismissed the complaint. Fitzjohn did not appeal the dismissal. Instead, on April 14, 2009, Fitzjohn filed a "Motion to Alter or Amend," citing to Rule 60, SCRCP.
On August 3, 2009, Fitzjohn filed his Notice of Appeal from the July 9, 2009 order. His sole issue on appeal is whether the circuit court erred in "holding that the two year statute of limitations period under S.C. Code Ann. § 12-51-160(C) [sic] and S.C. Code Ann. § 12-51-90(C) acted to bar the Fitzjohn action where the true owner was not named in the tax sale action." His arguments under that issue point to purported defects in the tax sale proceedings. According to Fitzjohn, the Tax Collector's failure to notify remainderman Terry Andrew Lewis of the tax sale rendered Player's tax title to the Property void.
"Whether to grant or deny a motion under Rule 60(b) lies within the sound discretion" of the circuit court. Raby Constr., L.L.P. v. Orr, 358 S.C. 10, 17-18, 594 S.E.2d 478, 482 (2004). An appellate court reviews such a decision for an abuse of discretion. Id. at 18, 594 S.E.2d at 482.
We affirm because Fitzjohn's arguments on appeal are not properly before this court. A trial court's finding that a motion is made under Rule 60(b) becomes the law of the case if not appealed. Williams v. Watkins, 384 S.C. 319, 323 n.2, 681 S.E.2d 914, 916 n.2 (Ct. App. 2009). The law is clear that the filing of a Rule 60 motion does not stay the time for filing an appeal. Stearns Bank Nat'l Ass'n v. Glenwood Falls, LP, 375 S.C. 423, 426, 653 S.E.2d 274, 275 (2007); see also Williams v. Condon, 347 S.C. 227, 251, 553 S.E.2d 496, 509 (Ct. App. 2001) (Shuler, J., dissenting) (recognizing "motions made pursuant to Rule 60, SCRCP do not affect the finality of the judgment under attack and thus do not toll the time for appeal").
Fitzjohn did not appeal the March 20, 2009 order, which decided the issue of alleged defects in the tax sale proceedings. Accordingly, that order is now the law of the case. See Williams, 384 S.C. at 323 n.2, 681 S.E.2d at 916 n.2. Moreover, although Fitzjohn timely appealed the July 9, 2009 order, his argument on appeal does not challenge the findings of fact or conclusions of law contained within that order.
The sole error Fitzjohn argues in this appeal is that the circuit court erred in failing to find the tax sale was defective and the tax deed void because the Tax Collector failed to give proper notice to the remainderman.