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boppers

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15. The government place a lien on property she didn't own anymore?

Reply to avaistheone1 (Reply #2)

Sun Jan 22, 2012, 06:43 PM

Jan 2012

As I understand it, she had effectively sold it to somebody else in 2002, and was allowed to stay as long as she kept paying taxes, kept the property up, etc.

Edit: After reading the article, she had already sold the house to the government (HUD), and they had paid her for full value of the house. They offered to let her stay, but when they went to the property, they realized the place was uninhabitable.

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