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New York Man’s Home Seized After He Comes Up $936 Short On $10,813 Tax Tab
Syracuse.com (Calvin James)
via Fox News
A Syracuse man had his home seized after he paid back $9,877 in city taxes over a six-month period — but came up $936 short. “I tried so hard. I tried so hard to make these payments,” Calvin James, who found out he lost the home when he walked into City Hall on Dec. 6 with a $1,500 check, told The Syracuse Post-Standard.The property had been seized Dec. 4.
The paper reported that the city launched an aggressive foreclosure campaign in 2012. The program puts the troubled properties into the Syracuse-area land bank, which either sells or demolishes them. James, who paid $8,500 in 2009 for the property, is currently renting his old home for $500 a month, the report said.
This is a story being played out across the US and has been for years. Fact is the city is going to make money off this man’s home and they are not going to give it back because of it. It is legal and the whole reason why it’s legal is because they make money off of it. That is the society that people have built for other people.
