Keep in mind this was not about taxes. It was about $6.30 in INTEREST.
What I don’t understand is how one person was allowed to buy this house for $6.30. Wasn’t there a public sale?
A friend of mine’s father was notorious in Chicago 30 years ago or so for buying up slum properties at tax sales. Then he’d collect rents, not spend a dime maintaining the buildings, and when the citations built up, he’d donate the building to some small black church, taking a big tax deduction for his “charity.” A real scumbag.