There are lots of ways. One such way is that the lender refuses to pay those property taxes if you've failed to make your own payments to the lender.
How on earth can someone buy a home and NOT know that they have to pay local taxes? That's just sheer idiocy...sorry to seem cruel, but it's true.
The real estate boom has to subside eventually...
There are lots of ways. One such way is that the lender refuses to pay those property taxes if you've failed to make your own payments to the lender.