Judge OKs decision to sell widow's home over $6.30 debt

Fox News ^ | 04-28-2014 | Associated Press

[PaulCruz2016]

BEAVER, Pa. – A widow was given ample notice before her $280,000 house was sold at a tax auction three years ago over $6.30 in unpaid interest, a Pennsylvania judge has ruled.

The decision last week turned down Eileen Battisti's request to reverse the September 2011 sale of her home outside Aliquippa in western Pennsylvania.

"I paid everything, and didn't know about the $6.30," Battisti said. "For the house to be sold just because of $6.30 is crazy."

[saganite]

Ignorance of your obligations to the state is no excuse. /s/

[DocJhn]

Says a lot about Beaver, PA. Who’s Brother In-Law of Tax Man reaped that reward?

[PubliusMM]

Dear Scoflaw:
All your asset belong a us.
Have a nice day.
Yer Prez
Zero

[DoughtyOne]

The tragedy for this woman is unspeakable. The entity that pressed the sale based on the paltry sum, should be raised. It should no longer exist.

[Sgt_Schultze]

So in the end, home “ownership” is a fantasy.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

”I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.”

—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[1010RD]

You can pay off your mortgage, but you can never pay off your property taxes.

[Nifster]

A government out of control...I guess she is lucky she wasn’t on BLM land

[Newbomb Turk]

If this came to my desk I would have whipped out $7 bucks in cash and told some lawyers to GTFO of my office.

[yarddog]

My Brother-in-Law was a manager for the IRS. I remember him telling me that if an amount owed was less than $10.00 it would simply be written off as not worth fooling with.

[PowderMonkey]

"There is no doubt that (she) had actual receipt of the notification of the tax upset sale on July 7, 2011, and Aug. 16, 2011," the judge wrote. "Moreover, on Aug. 12, 2011, a notice of sale was sent by first class mail and was not returned."

Well! There you have it. Indisputable. First Class mail, no less. Not returned. If you can't trust the U.S. Postal Service, who can you trust? Case closed. Toss the old bat out.

[Mr. K]

NOw that there’s some GOOOOooood Governmenting!

Not one single dumbass bureaucrat had the sense to put a stop to this~!

i bet they were standing in line to bid on it

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Judge OKs decision to sell widow’s home over $6.30 debt

If I did not read the article, I would have thought the house was in Detroit or Gary, Indiana.

In these places, the government will PAY YOU to own houses.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Notice that they sold the $280,000 house for $116,000 ... find out who bought it for less than 50% of its value and who they are related to or business partners of.

[paint_your_wagon]

Ma’am,

That wasn’t your house. Somebody else built that house. Somebody else made it happen.

Barack Obama

[Rashputin]

Uppity peasants, how dare they ignore a debt to the Peoples Revenue Representatives.

[Fresh Wind]

Well, the original amount might have been $6.30, but with interest and penalties, your bill came to exactly $280,000.

Sorry, comrade, but the good news is that you are eligible for section 8 now.

[PoloSec]

There is very little JUSTICE in America anymore!