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at140

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6. I can understand there is always fraud possible,

Fri Nov 29, 2019, 12:25 PM

Nov 2019

and as you described, it would be fairly easy to file a change of ownership deed at the county court house.
But the recorded "owner" of the house always gets 2 letters from the assessor every year.
One is for declaring the assessed valuation and the other is the tax bill. If any owner does not receive both of those in any year, he/she needs to alert the authorities. I don't think it would be difficult to trace down the fraud by law enforcement. In other words, any alert home owner can quickly discover the fraud and report it within a 9 month period. Any judge would be on the home owner's side in such obvious case of fraud.

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I can understand there is always fraud possible, at140 Nov 2019 #6

Any judge? CloudWatcher Nov 2019 #7

I should have said "most judges"...eom at140 Nov 2019 #10

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