Those of you who were talking with me about the housing situation and taxes being sold - nobody wants to help us! We have asked several times for an estimate of redemption and keep getting the run around. I'm not sure what we are to do. We have 4 dogs and can't just up and move =/ If ya'll got some ideas.
Update: We live in a redemption state for property taxes. Our ptax was sold in Oct (that's how we found out about it) and now 3months later he can do ownership??
And so we finally get a legal aid to actually talk to us - it's apparently up to the dude who bought the taxes to work it out with us and that doesn't look likely. WTF. WTF.
@MrGoat were you not informed by registered mail that you had back taxes & there was a tax sale coming up? (i'm guessing that's what happened, & a vulture capitalist hopped in?)
@redenigma basically - yea she didnt get anything in the mail and hadn't payed property taxes
@stueytheround Sir, Thank you. I'm trying not to freak out. @redenigma
@MrGoat so you rent from someone who didn't pay the taxes? that does put you in a really bad place. if the owner did not receive mail informing her of taxes & a court date or date of tax sale, she does have some grounds to take this to court...
@redenigma No -
1. This is her mobile home
2. I don't put my nose in her bank or taxes business unless she asks for help
3. Property taxes are like 100 bucks a year for this place and they didn't get paid apparently?! Nothing in mail about them ever.....
4. Found out they sold the property tax at auction and now that person has got the title transfered.
@MrGoat depending on the state, back tax sales can be anywhere from one year to 5 years late. now that most towns have taxes listed online, vulture capitalists sit there waiting to grab super cheap properties (bonus for them if there's no mortgage to get in the way of the title grab) & jack the rent
you could try talking to a pro bono lawyer because she wasn't notified, but you're correct, it's not a good situation
@redenigma Yeah it's either this guy makes a deal and let's her buy back the title for whatever he paid (1500) plus a fee ..... or we have to save every penny and try to find somewhere else to move.
@MrGoat this sort of bullshit is why it bugs me that crazy lady on the town dumpster fire keeps accusing me of not paying my property taxes (or not enough property taxes). we get billed 2x/year. i usually pay it all at once. my property is in "current use", which considerably lowers my taxes (but if i sell & the buyer takes it out of current use, they will owe the town ALL the reduced tax back to when it went under current use).
anyway, she's trying to get a vulture to grab my property.
@redenigma holy hell - fucking people i swear.
@MrGoat i could do without most people... too much self-entitled nonsense out there
@redenigma Amen to that.
@redenigma @MrGoat there are a lot of vultures out there
@TheresaVermont @MrGoat capitalism is a disease.
@MrGoat @redenigma
So maybe this tax sale occurred over 30 months ago and he bided his time until the redemption period had passed?
But it doesn't make any sense for a used mobile home in a rented space in a mobile home park.
Maybe the guy is out of state and saw the property on a list and didn't know what it was, or maybe he bid on a group of properties at tax auction, and he has no idea he's the proud owner of a used mobile home.
He might be happy to sell it back to you.
@EileenKCarpenter they were sold at auction in oct. @redenigma
@MrGoat @EileenKCarpenter is the trailer in a park or own land? if it's a park, is it a cooperative?
@redenigma @EileenKCarpenter park and its recently bought by a company
@MrGoat @EileenKCarpenter is it possible the tax notices were going to park management & not the residents?
@redenigma Could have but I doubt it - We keep mail for a while and went through the stack several times with nothing for this year or last year regarding property taxes
@EileenKCarpenter
@MrGoat @EileenKCarpenter have you talked to the town clerk/tax collector? this is not normal
@redenigma yes and after several times calling finally someone actually spoke to us but said there's nothing they can do. =/
We need 3 bedroms and literally everything i've looked at close enough to keep them in school here is like 1400+ a month to rent + utilities - we can't afford that. @EileenKCarpenter
@redenigma not to mention 250 deposit per animal and 25 per month per animal. @EileenKCarpenter
@redenigma 25 a month is part of their dog food =( @EileenKCarpenter
@MrGoat Oh no thats horrible
@catlynne333 who u tellin
@MrGoat ??? no body
@catlynne333 lol sarcasm
@MrGoat Mate I'm sorry you're going through all of this. All I have is my prayers, and believe me, I *am* praying! 🙏🏻
@redenigma