Why didn’t she pay it? Why didn’t she call and make arrangements? I know many here in Florida that pay their property taxes quarterly so they don’t have a bill once a year they have to come up with. I’m sure some even accept monthly payments. It must be true that most Americans don’t even have six hundred dollars in a savings account. There were many avenues she could have taken. Everybody o earth knows that if you don’t pay property taxes, you lose your home.
““I had been responsible for paying [the property taxes], and when our company went out of business in Rhode Island, I didn’t have the money to pay them,” Mr. Searle told The Epoch Times. “
She didn’t know about it, apparently.
If she owned it, she should have paid the taxes, not delegated it to her son.