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
@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 Amen to that.
@MrGoat i could do without most people... too much self-entitled nonsense out there