Tag Archive | "property"

Woman’s Home Threatened Over 1 Cent Water Bill

Thursday, November 20, 2008

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UNBELIEVABLE!!! First, the story: A 74-year-old blind woman was shocked when her daughter found a letter from the city saying a lien would be placed on her home unless she paid an overdue water bill. The amount? 1 cent. …The letter warned of a lien and a $48 penalty if the overdue bill is not [...]

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Oil-Rich Countries Nabbing US Homes

Sunday, August 10, 2008

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Couldn’t believe me eyes when I woke up to see this headline at the New York Post: LOST SOVEREIGNTY: Oil-Rich Fund Eyeing Foreclosed U.S. Homes. American mortgage brokers have been shopping– shopping for foreclosed American homes– on behalf of “sovereign funds” like Abu Dhabi, Norway, Singapore, and Kuwait. Unbelievable. There’s a new land grab starting [...]

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Home Taken Over Unpaid Parking Tix

Monday, August 4, 2008

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Surprised? It’s happening again. A Milwaukee man is facing foreclosure on his $245,000 home because he wouldn’t pay a $50 parking ticket in 2004. In what city officials believe is the first case of its kind, the city foreclosed on Tubic’s house on W. Verona Court after repeated attempts to collect the fine – which [...]

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How to Create a Serfdom

Saturday, June 28, 2008

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Chief Justice John Marshall once said, “The power to tax is the power to destroy.” I’ll let that sink in for a minute. I was at the gym a week or two ago and saw the most appalling “infomercial” I have ever seen in my life. (No, it wasn’t for maternity clothes or acne treatments!) [...]

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