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Judi Lynn

(160,530 posts) Mon Dec 15, 2014, 04:42 AM Dec 2014

Widow can keep home despite $6.30 in late taxes

Widow can keep home despite $6.30 in late taxes
From wire reports • Sunday December 14, 2014 9:15 AM

A widow whose western Pennsylvania home was sold by the county after she failed to pay interest accrued on $6.30 in late tax fees was overjoyed when a court ruled she can keep her home, her lawyer said on Friday.

Eileen Battisti, who is in her early 50s and lost her husband in 2004, was unfamiliar with managing her finances and did not understand in 2009 that she owed the $6.30 late fee, which subsequently accrued $234.72 in interest, prompting the tax sale of her home in 2011, said her lawyer, Ed Santillan.

A judge in Pittsburgh on Thursday ruled that Battisti could keep ownership of the home in Aliquippa, about 20 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.

She has remained in the home with two of her three adult children since it was sold by the Beaver County Tax Claim Bureau to S.P. Lewis, a man who buys tax delinquent properties and sells them back to their former owners for a profit, according to court papers.

More:
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/national_world/2014/12/14/widow-can-keep-home-despite-630-in-late-taxes.html

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Widow can keep home despite $6.30 in late taxes (Original Post) Judi Lynn Dec 2014 OP

If only... gadjitfreek Dec 2014 #1

+1 n/t ejbr Dec 2014 #3

+100. NewDeal_Dem Dec 2014 #6

Good for her UglyGreed Dec 2014 #2

Good outcome. The Lewis guy is like the vulture who took my family's land years ago. freshwest Dec 2014 #4

Good Grief.. Thank you, IRS! Cha Dec 2014 #5

Hopefully person who purchased her property won't appeal the ruling. herding cats Dec 2014 #7

gadjitfreek

(399 posts)

1. If only...

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Mon Dec 15, 2014, 06:55 AM

Dec 2014

They pursued corporate tax dodgers this vigorously instead of throwing millions in free money at them.

ejbr

(5,856 posts)

3. +1 n/t

Reply to gadjitfreek (Reply #1)

Mon Dec 15, 2014, 07:26 AM

Dec 2014

NewDeal_Dem

(1,049 posts)

6. +100.

Reply to gadjitfreek (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 16, 2014, 01:36 AM

Dec 2014

UglyGreed

(7,661 posts)

2. Good for her

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Mon Dec 15, 2014, 07:03 AM

Dec 2014

glad to see some compassion instead of greed. People over money, imagine how nice that kind of world would be.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)

4. Good outcome. The Lewis guy is like the vulture who took my family's land years ago.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Dec 16, 2014, 01:33 AM

Dec 2014

For the same cause. My GF worked thirty years to buy that for his kids, then he and his wife died leaving the children as orphans. There was no work, although the boys quit school to go to work. So they lost it all.

After that came a progressive era in our state with exemptions for the elderly and disabled to protect their homesteads. And if there were taxes accruing, a lien was put on the property that was only collected after death, or arrangements could be made with heirs.

If not, it went on the auction block and someone got a place for nickels on the dollar. There will always be people who will make their fortunes off others' misfortunes, even if they have to engineer it. And we have some very greedy people in this country right now.

Cha

(297,229 posts)

5. Good Grief.. Thank you, IRS!

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Dec 16, 2014, 01:35 AM

Dec 2014

herding cats

(19,564 posts)

7. Hopefully person who purchased her property won't appeal the ruling.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Dec 16, 2014, 01:48 AM

Dec 2014

They don't sound like the most scrupulous of sorts at a glance.

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