[Paladin2]

The Legal System needs to be set up and biased on the side of the property owner. The Law could easily be written to favor the citizen over the State.

This current Minn. law is sick and needs to be reformed.

The Minn. Law is fascist.

[linMcHlp]

See my reply 12, above.

I think that the flaw, is that lawyers for, or who are, real estate property developers, play a game with the old Minnesota laws pertaining to this type of matter; and either, the lawyers are participants along with greedy government bureaucrats, or the lawyers know how to “influence” (sometimes read: coerce) government bureaucrats, to force the shift from foreclosure status to abandonment status . . . and thereby the lawyers “do well” but do not “do good.”

[Alberta's Child]

Who is the “property owner” in this case? In a condominium arrangement there are typically three parties that hold liens on the property: the government (to secure payment of taxes), the bank (to secure payment of the mortgage), and the condominium association (to secure payment of the condo fees). In my experience the condo association lien is subordinate to the mortgage and they are both subordinate to the tax obligation.

Based on the information reported in this article, it looks like the property was encumbered to the hilt and may have had negative equity after all the liens were satisfied. If that’s the case, then the plaintiff here really didn’t “own” anything.

[Major Matt Mason]

Outlawing property taxes would be a good start.