Since Cash Money CEO Bryan “Birdman” Williams was hit with a $ 12 million foreclosure lawsuit, his Drake, Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne platinum plaques have been locked up in a storage unit. On Wednesday , a judge reportedly denied Birdman's request to get them back. Foreclosure News
Wayne County is the nation's leader in tax foreclosures, with more than 150,000 in the past 15 years. Despite reforms and outreach efforts, more than 100 people lost their homes last year for debts of $ 1,000 or less. Foreclosure News
Tax foreclosures have ravaged this block of Monte Vista on Detroit's west side. All but seven of 22 homes have been seized for nonpayment of taxes and fallen into disrepair or been razed Wayne County doesn't always enforce a law that forbids tax delinquents from buying properties at its tax foreclosure auctions, contributing to a […]
This Loveland map shows all of the properties that have been foreclosed and sold at auction in the city over the past 15 years. When it comes to Wayne County tax foreclosures, some of the gaps in what even supposed experts know about it are surprising. Foreclosure News
Protesters call on the Wayne County Treasurer to halt the auction until the problem of “illegal tax assessments” can be resolved. Protesters gathered in front of the Detroit home of Wayne County Treasurer Eric Sabree Thursday demanding he halt next week's tax foreclosure auction in light of a study showing the majority of Detroiters have […]
The tax foreclosure crisis in Wayne County contines, with another massive batch of properties at risk of being seized. The 2016-2017 foreclosure cycle wraps up June 28, the date by which home owners with three years' worth of back taxes have to make payment arrangements with the Wayne County Treasurer's Office. Foreclosure News
Jerry Paffendorf a , CEO of Loveland Technologies based in Detroit and the San Francisco Bay Area, thinks Wayne County's heavy reliance on late tax payments to balance its once-out-of-whack budget is creating a push to foreclose on homes, rather than do all it can to keep people in their homes. “We can do the […]
Joel Kurth is the Detroit Editor for Bridge Magazine. Along with Mike Wilkinson and Laura Herberg, he's been digging into how Wayne County is fattening its coffers through home foreclosures. Foreclosure News
It's that time of year again: A redemption deadline for Wayne County property owners facing foreclosure for failing to pay three years' worth of taxes has passed, and those living at places where a homeowner did not make arrangements to start paying off those back taxes now run the risk of losing the roof over […]
The conference is over but the scholarship lives on. This is one of a series of posts highlighting several KCON XII presenters who graciously provided me with abstracts or summaries of their presentations. Foreclosure News