[DannyTN]

Sounds like this one is funded by city taxes and these people apparently lived outside the city. Thus the fee.

[AlexW]

“Sounds like this one is funded by city taxes and these people apparently lived outside the city. Thus the fee.”
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Then it should be funded by county taxes.
If not, the fee should be included in rent or mortgage
payments.
If that does not work, a lien could be filed on the property.

Watching the house burn is cruel and unusual punishment.