When the tenant in possession does not, within 15 days from the time he or she receives the notice specified in section 2802 of this title, make sworn return to the officer as therein required, such officer may sell the real estate so in possession of the tenant, or sufficient to satisfy the execution, as the property of the debtor, discharged from any right, title, or interest of such tenant therein, and as real estate may be sold under this chapter. The officer to whom a writ of possession is issued after such sale, by virtue thereof, may remove the tenant from such real estate and put the purchaser in possession.