Paying Back Taxes Doesn’t Make You a Homeowner
Pasco County’s tax collector doesn’t know the source of misinformation, but men and women are paying out homes’ again taxes and telling lawful owners they no for a longer period have the property.
PASCO COUNTY, Fla. – A new gimmick is exhibiting up in Pasco County, exactly where individuals believe they can own a property fast just by paying its back again house taxes.
“It’s baffling to the intellect that somebody would assume by paying out their taxes that they have a residence mechanically,” explained Mike Fasano, Pasco County Tax Collector.
He doesn’t know how this craze started.
“Either one particular, persons are receiving this details from social media – or they are shelling out some entity a great deal of revenue to be offered some fake information and facts,” Fasano stated.
Fasano needed to get the phrase out just after an aged female frantically named their office on Friday.
“The human being who thinks they purchased the house, arrived at the residence and tells the person who’s residing there I own your dwelling now. And of system this individual panicked.”
The Pasco County tax collector’s business sent a letter to the personal who tried to claim the elderly woman’s property. It knowledgeable her this is not a real procedure and she could be arrested for trespassing.
“I want to make it crystal clear to them that they do not possess that household. You aren’t even near to owning that property. In actuality, what you are doing is getting rid of money.”
It could consider decades to buy a delinquent property in Florida.
“If you want to do it appropriate, you have to participate in the tax certification sale. You have to hold on to that tax certificate for two yrs,” stated Fasano. “Then you start out the method of acquiring the household auctioned off.” Even then, anyone else could outbid you for the household.
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