Supreme Court rules in favor of 94-year-old woman who got nothing when county took her condo

[FBaggins]

15. I'm not as concerned about that

It seems excessive. But part of that is because the home's value was so low.

Counties incur significant expense in the process of foreclosing on and auctioning off these properties. The delinquent taxpayer should bear those expenses - as well as a proportional sharing of the costs of running the department (or subcontracting it out).

The great part of this ruling isn't just that Geraldine Tyler (and others like her) will get what was stolen from them... it's that the counties will lose the incentive to do this in the first place (possibly encouraging them to help struggling homeowners stay in their homes).

I suspect that the ruling will cause a bunch of counties to start getting claims for refunds of what was stolen. I wonder whether there will be a scorecard of the worst offenders.