Posted on 10/22/2014 7:35:16 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Remember the woman who had her home sold out from underneath her by the inept hacks of Norcross, GA city government? The ones who received tax payments from her for three years, then seized her home without notice and sold it (also without notice) because they claimed they didn't know how to contact her. At her HOME. Where she LIVED?
Yesterday city officials denied knowing anything about anything and suggested that, since the home had a new legal owner, there might not be anything they could do...except keep the money from the sale and throw this family out on the street.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsradio1067.com ...
Woman’s condo sold over $95 overdue tax bill (that she never received!)
(((PING)))
Norcross does not seem to be a hotbed of liberalism, although it is becoming rapidly overpopulated (and with overpopulation comes liberalism). This is surprising to me. Certainly somebody with some clout (like the governor or one or both Senators) should step in and straighten this mess out.
What else can you expect when the entire country is being run by Affirmative Action types.
Looks like collusion between the contractor handling the bills and delinquent sales trying to make a buck off someone not savvy.
Regardless, as a homeowner of many years, once I had to pay that first bill, I NEVER EVER thought it normal when a bill just didn’t show up at the expected time. Some would say that’s escrowed by the mortgage company and all that, but the article says this woman paid CASH for the house on purchase and that she’s paid the bills before.
More investigation needed - I don’t think all the story is here.
Even conservative counties have their fair share of crooks. My experience as a multi-generational descendant of Cobb County residents tells me Cobb County Government is full of crooks.
Cobb County is notorious. Fulton is the worst, Gwinnett, Dekalb. Aw hell. All of them suck.
Amen and Boy Howdy!
Now if we all could just Holly Springs police off of I575 speed trap patrol. I swear, when I used to travel up and down I575 every day them two HS cops on each side reminded me of Bears at the Rapids during Salmon Homecoming week in Washington State....ha ha...
With so many ways of intimidation, our government is becoming a Thugocracy
I believe ‘government’ has become more concerned with its perpetuation and expansion rather than the original purpose for which they were created - to SERVE. We have, in effect, created a whole new class of pseudo-citizen, the government leech.
Their daily go-to-work attitude is “dealing with those damned taxpayers” and “how can I shed some of my workload?” Often, we see in many counties and municipalities these ‘servants’ argue for more efficient outside contractors to take up that burgeoning workload. Yet, they NEVER suggest that replacement could result in less government employees.
After all, they need ‘supervision and oversight’. Meanwhile their unions and cohorts rally for more benefits, increased wages economy-be-damned, and more REGULATION that keeps the normal citizen from calling them to account. And, when the economy is so bad and things outside their world get so bad, they aid and abet efforts to implement additional taxes in the form of “sidewalk” and “park” and “road” SPLOSTS that further choke the taxpayer.
Here is universal axiom. Once local government gets a SPLOST emplaced, they will die before they let it go to expiration. It rarely, RARELY happens.
Why is it any government thinks the way to settle a minor bill is to seize the property.....why don’t they do what anyone else would do and take the homeowner to court. Answer.....because they can.
I’m kind of surprised too as I lived in Norcross for 14 years. I have heard that all the counties will sell your house if you don’t pay the taxes. I remember when all they could do for a long time was just put a tax lien on you. I guess the law changed. IMO The only answer to this is to do away with property taxes and let a sales tax pay for all the public services.
One would have thought the government would have added the $95 plus late fees to the following year’s statement, and the year after and year after which she paid.
They’re simply trying to catch up to the police who rake in lotsa money that way.
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