Posted on 12/05/2018 3:20:35 PM PST by TexasKamaAina
Frank Vickers was sitting on his couch watching "Jeopardy!" when he heard a knock at the door one evening in late September. Before he could stand up, a Bastrop County Sheriff’s deputy was standing in his living room.
Vickers said the deputy told him to gather his belongings and get out of the house. The property was sold to a new owner.
(Excerpt) Read more at kxan.com ...
The county commissioner, his daughter, the auctioneer and the Sherriffs deputy seriously need time in jail !
Send in the Rangers to arrest both county officials and the new “owner”. Bet this isn’t the first scam they’ve pulled.
All confiscations and sales made by local or State government to recover fees, taxes, debts etc, must be publicised in newspapers here downunder. A public auction by a licensed auction company or management agency follows, and that event is also advertised. The story above says officers of a court simply mail out a letter to the last known address of an owner?
Why homestead is in effect.....
I have had 3 different houses with homestead attached. I also had a house that I could NOT homestead because it was NOT my residence.
I am pretty sure that this house was no longer under the homestead rules because she wasn’t living in it.
BTW- for all the Freepers out there:
IF you own your own home & are NOT a renter-—PLEASE file a homestead paper if that is allowed in your state or county.
It only costs me $14 for the filing fee & $5 for the in house notary to sign me off in the local county offices to get a homestead that is worth $550,000 against any lawsuits. IOW-—IF anyone tried to sue me, & demanded that the house be sold, they wouldn’t get any money from that sale UNTIL there was money in excess of $550,000 in the proceeds of the sale.
That is the cheapest insurance in existence, IMO.
That last known address trick is strategic incompetence common in city halls and courthouses when they don’t want to notify property owners of some change (or meeting to discuss change) that they are legally required to notify. It’s always some unidentified flunky who messed up, read the records wrong and sent the notices to dead addresses or previous owners.
Funny how the property tax bills never have that problem.
Not surprised ... Bastrop city and county are a Progressive sh!tholes adjacent to Austin (Travis County).
If the person has not purchased another home, they get to keep the homestead exemption.
Anybody coming through my door without me opening it will need a pine box - Sheriff’s aren’t exempt.
I attended an auction for a drug plane many years ago in Corpus Christi, Texas. The plane was most legitimately seized and auctioned on the court house steps. The auction was a farce. No microphone or sound system and just low voices on the court house steps. I could not even hear what the auctioneer was saying and in about 1 minute the auction was closed and the plane sold for 5000 dollars.
I did not even get to bid as I could not hear the bids nor did the auctioneer repeat the bids in a manner that could be heard.
It was a Twin Commander worth many times more. The auction was a farce with a predetermined buyer. The engines alone on that aircraft would have been worth 15000 dollars in 1982. The air frame would have been of equal value or more.
In reality a 30 to 50 thousand dollar aircraft was sold for 5000 dollars. It had a hell of an instrument panel complete with a radar altimeter which is of great use flying across the Gulf of Mexico at low altitude. It was a very nice aircraft.
The fix was in.
.……….in hundreds of real estate deals, I don’t know of anyone who has ever collected a dime on a claim against a Title Company.
I know of several, and I’m not in the real estate business.
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