Except that he’s in his 80s. Maybe he wasn’t even opening his mail for a decade.
I suppose after this, everybody should visit the tax collector after paying taxes, and ask, on video and audio, “do I owe ANYTHING more”?
Maybe but Oakland County has provided proof he was notified on the amount needed to cure the arrear.
His lawyers have the burden of proof of showing the MI Supreme Court he never saw them.
I learned the hard way that you don't fold your property taxes and house insurance into your mortgage payment.
The local taxing authorities sent paperwork to an old address - well after the time I'd taken up residence in their small community.
I didn't notice that they'd put my homestead exemption into the circular file [because the property taxes were folded into the mortgage payment]. This cost me several thousand dollars over a few years, until I finally caught on to what was up.
I wouldn't trust their word that they sent notice to the correct address.