Posted on 03/11/2015 10:36:56 AM PDT by rickmichaels
“she also became responsible for any past due taxes and any unpaid liens on the property. This should have been disclosed to her at closing.”
I thought that’s what a title search is all about, so you weren’t assuming someone else’s debt.
It should have been. It also is public record. So I don’t see how she could claim ignorance. At least the article does not mention an HOA and dues for that as well.
You nailed it. Those Michigan cities should wipe the slate clean and declare a ten year Tax Holiday to entice people to move in and renovate those homes. And start rebuilding the local economies.
It said she was unemployed but didn't state when she lost her job. She may have been working at the time she bought it.....and to her credit, she paid cash for it.
It's quite likely that when she purchased the property from the city, they never informed her of the back taxes that were due on it and then she subsequently lost her job.
How in the world would she be better off paying rent as opposed to OWNING a home outright for just $6,000????
The crime here is a property tax rate of 141%!!!!
The sick kid be bring’en in dat govment money! That check every month and ebts be phat!
Folks on my dad’s side sold out before the riots.
Just in time.
“I don’t see how she could claim ignorance.”
Forget it lastchance...........it’s Detroit. :)
Let’s see, she’s had a hard time finding consistent work since 2005, but she bought the house in 2010. And the sick daughter is 8, so born in 2006-7, also after the financial troubles began. No mention of ages of other two children, but I’m betting they’re younger than the 8YO. She is now pregnant with child #4. No mention of husband or kid’s dad. I think I’m seeing a pattern here...
Way down in the article, Gresham’s tax is $2000 per year for that house in that neighborhood.
And what is produced for it? More robbery, with the robbers calling everyone else trash from both sides of politics.
How could I have forgotten? Dear me.
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