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Widow trying to sell family home of 40 years finds she doesn't own $1.2 million property after husba
UK Daily Mail ^ | April 1, 2014 | Jessica Jerreat

Posted on 04/01/2014 5:49:30 PM PDT by kiryandil

An elderly widow who had fallen behind in her property taxes discovered she longer owned her home after trying to sell it to pay off her debt.

Unbeknown to Hertha Handler, ownership of her $1.2 million Oyster Bay Cove home in Long Island has been transferred to an investor who bought two of the liens against the property.

The 73-year-old widow had lived in the property for more than 40 years but after her husband died several years ago, she slipped behind on taxes and had an outstanding debt of $200,000.

Multiple liens had been made against the property, where Mrs Handler had raised her two sons, but she had no idea ownership had been transferred to investor Albert Kalimian.

By buying just two of the liens from Oyster Bay Cove village for about $3,000 each, Mr Kalimian was able to take possession of the property.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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Many American peasants don't understand that their state governments stole their homes within the last 30-40 years.

YOU DON'T OWN YOUR HOME. You're renting it from the government. Rent due twice annually.

Unless, of course, you live in Alaska...

1 posted on 04/01/2014 5:49:30 PM PDT by kiryandil
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To: kiryandil

What’s special about Alaska?


2 posted on 04/01/2014 5:51:24 PM PDT by BipolarBob
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To: BipolarBob

Most jurisdictions in Alaska don’t have a property tax.


3 posted on 04/01/2014 5:52:12 PM PDT by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: kiryandil

To accumulate $200,00 worth of property tax debt would take several years. She would have been notified several times by the town she lives in. For whatever reason she ignored the letters and warnings that were sent to her.


4 posted on 04/01/2014 5:53:44 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: kiryandil

I wish the Constitution had specified Allodial title for land ownership. Absolute ownership: no ifs, no ands, no buts.


5 posted on 04/01/2014 5:54:41 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: CaptainK
Not if her husband sat on them before he died.

No comment on renting your house from the government?

;-)

6 posted on 04/01/2014 5:55:25 PM PDT by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: kiryandil
Her husband probably always took care of the bills and when he died she didn't take them over. Happens all the time.
7 posted on 04/01/2014 5:55:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("A man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; a man who respects it has earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: BipolarBob

Between governments and Indian tribes, there is very little private land in Alaska. Shockingly little.


8 posted on 04/01/2014 5:56:12 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: jjotto

What are the prices like for private land, if you can get it?


9 posted on 04/01/2014 5:58:38 PM PDT by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: kiryandil

Tax Lien sale.


10 posted on 04/01/2014 5:58:40 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: CaptainK
For whatever reason she ignored the letters and warnings that were sent to her.

Perhaps her husband handled the finances. Maybe she has physical and/or metal disabilities.

I recently took over my elderly parents finances - they were behind on everything. It happens all the time.

But hey there's money to be made. Can't stop progress.

11 posted on 04/01/2014 5:59:08 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: headstamp 2

Yeeeeeeeeessss?


12 posted on 04/01/2014 5:59:36 PM PDT by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: CaptainK

Some places have enormous property taxes and if you don’t pay the penalty can be several times the tax. On a 1.5 million dollar home, it might not have taken long.


13 posted on 04/01/2014 5:59:50 PM PDT by Varda
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To: CaptainK

You are right there should have been multiple notifications but then again sometimes it just seems to slip between the cracks.

I used to know a lawyer who regularly bought up tax sale property. He didn’t do it on the sly tho. What he would do is buy the owner’s right of redemption from him.

One time he asked the owner if he was willing to sell his right and the guy had no idea his property was being sold for taxes. The guy went down and paid them immediately.


14 posted on 04/01/2014 5:59:56 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: kiryandil

This is wrong.


15 posted on 04/01/2014 6:01:40 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: kiryandil

I know I have to pay my property taxes and if I don’t I’ll have a lien attached to my home. Therefore I pay in a timely fashion and if I get a note from the town that I’m late I pay right away.

I love to pay my property tax in the same way I love to pay my income tax.

Hopefully the person who purchased her lien works things out with her.


16 posted on 04/01/2014 6:02:13 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: yarddog

I live on Long Island and I know the towns are diligent in sending out several notices before beginning any proceedings.


17 posted on 04/01/2014 6:04:13 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: CaptainK
I love to pay my property tax in the same way I love to pay my income tax.

My view is that I don't remember being consulted on either one. I do know they conned my great-grandfather into agreeing with the income tax - on the richest 1%...

18 posted on 04/01/2014 6:05:05 PM PDT by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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$1.2 Million House?

Even for New York, that's pretty extreme for that thing.

19 posted on 04/01/2014 6:06:04 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Varda
On a 1.5 million dollar home, it might not have taken long.

Especially on Long Island.

20 posted on 04/01/2014 6:08:02 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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