Supreme Court weighs 'home equity theft' dispute

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The Supreme Court is considering whether to allow local governments and sometimes private companies to keep profits when properties are seized for a failure to pay taxes.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday weighs a 94-year-old woman's claim that a Minnesota county violated the Constitution by retaining a $25,000 profit when it sold her home in a tax foreclosure sale.

Six states — Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Montana, Nebraska and New Jersey — allow private investors to retain equity in properties once the delinquent taxes are paid, Pacific Legal Foundation says. Others allow the government to pocket the remaining equity when the property is sold. Tyler purchased the one-bedroom condominium in a north Minneapolis neighborhood in 1999 and lived there for more than a decade. It was only after she had moved into a home for seniors that she fell behind on her taxes, starting in 2011.

 

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