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Offline Ptarmigan

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D.C. tax liens allow investors to target poor areas for foreclosures
« on: September 09, 2013, 02:11:09 PM »
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On the day Bennie Coleman lost his house, the day armed U.S. marshals came to his door and ordered him off the property, he slumped in a folding chair across the street and watched the vestiges of his 76 years hauled to the curb.

Movers carted out his easy chair, his clothes, his television. Next came the things that were closest to his heart: his Marine Corps medals and photographs of his dead wife, Martha. The duplex in Northeast Washington that Coleman bought with cash two decades earlier was emptied and shuttered. By sundown, he had nowhere to go.

All because he didn’t pay a $134 property tax bill.

I have seen homeowners who are severely delinquent on their pay and not get forclosed on. This is in DC, a corrupt leftist cesspool.
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Re: D.C. tax liens allow investors to target poor areas for foreclosures
« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2013, 02:15:24 PM »
Quote from: Ptarmigan on September 09, 2013, 02:11:09 PM
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2013/09/08/left-with-nothing/

I have seen homeowners who are severely delinquent on their pay and not get forclosed on. This is in DC, a corrupt leftist cesspool.

He was, is a MARINE, ergo, a right wing terrorist. He is a danger to the politicians.......and more importantly, some real estate friend of Obama may need that piece of property to make a fortune.
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Re: D.C. tax liens allow investors to target poor areas for foreclosures
« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2013, 02:44:09 PM »
Is there more to this story?  He didn't have any friends he could borrow a couple of hundred from?  No one to hold a fundraiser?  Was his property wanted by someone with connections?
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