Towns tax delinquent legal action wants to “Take”a church park meant for children. Post 53


Fosters.com Saturday,September 22,2007   By Amanda Dumond     Democrat Staff Writer

Camp Fireside in Barrington could lose property to back taxes

BARRINGTON NH –A Christian summer camp is in jeopardy of losing its property because of $273,000 in back taxes.

The town says Camp Fireside,which has offered camp for children ages 8-17 and for families since 1952,has not kept its nonprofit status current for more than three years,which . . .

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As foreclosures rise,so do apartments and tax delinquencies. Post 52


TENNESSEAN.COM

Friday,08/31/07     By Noelle Knox

Rentals boom as American dream fades

As mortgage rates rise,demand for apartments swells

USA Today / Chris Ervin is renewing his lease at the Kirkway Apartments outside Detroit. Even if he and his wife,Rachel,wanted to buy a home,Ervin doesn’t think they could qualify for a loan now that so many mortgage lenders have raised interest rates,tightened their standards and axed loans . . .

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Elderly tax delinquents are in trouble. Post 51


New York Law Journal   New York Lawyer

August 31,2007 By Thomas Adcock

A Taxing Problem

Speculators in the shark-infested waters of the real estate world smell the blood of new prey:  the elderly who long ago paid off mortgages on houses now worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and who fall behind on likewise increasing property tax payments,facing the prospect of losing their title and . . .

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Tax lien investors probed by FBI for bid rigging. Post 50


BaltimoreSun.com September 7,2007     By Fred Schulte and June Arney | sun reporters

Probe targets tax-lien sales

U.S. agents raid 2 area businesses

Federal agents have raided two Baltimore County real estate businesses and seized a wide range of records as part of a criminal investigation into municipal auctions of property tax liens.

Search warrants show that the FBI obtained the records to support a probe into possible mail fraud and restraint-of-trade . . .

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A typically sad tax delinquent story. Post 49


sun-herald.com 09/10/07         By Elaine Allen-Emrich

Her home is going on the auction block

Woman needs $11,500 to save her home

NORTH PORT –Beverly Rosa promised her dying mother she would not put her ailing father in a nursing home. Keeping her word often meant being punched by her father as she cooked dinner. For years,she withstood abuse and other side effects of his dementia.

“He was real bad in the . . .

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Some tax lien certificates are like Junk Bonds. Caveat Emptor! Post 48


Lake County tax sale will close traditional bidding

Monday,August 27,2007      nwi.com (NorthWest Indiana) By Bill Dolan

CROWN POINT | Lake County commissioners hope to unload hundreds of tax-delinquent properties next week in a sale that also may be the last before a change in the way tax sales are conducted.

Potential buyers will gather one more time Tuesday and Wednesday in the Government complex’s auditorium. An . . .

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