Re:Man Underpaid Property Tax by $8.41 County Seized Home, S...
by glitchc on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @01:46PM
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If the property is legitimately owned, the title is registered with the land registry office. These are public records and the county definitely has access to them.
> It sucks, but once there's a lien on the property you're SOL as a property owner.
That implies that any home with a mortgage means you're SOL. Does this mean ownership is dead? The US has a mix of title-theory and lien-theory states. In lien-theory states, a mortgage counts as a lien on the home. Michigan, in particular, is an intermediary state, in which case the mortgage does have some component of a lien. It gets complicated since each state has it's own rules.
> It sucks, but once there's a lien on the property you're SOL as a property owner.
That implies that any home with a mortgage means you're SOL. Does this mean ownership is dead? The US has a mix of title-theory and lien-theory states. In lien-theory states, a mortgage counts as a lien on the home. Michigan, in particular, is an intermediary state, in which case the mortgage does have some component of a lien. It gets complicated since each state has it's own rules.