Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Pennslyvania Property Theft is Legal

My Uncle joined the national guard when he was 17 and then 6 years later he decided we wanted to do Masonary work(as its called around here). It took him over 20 years of monthly payments to purchase half a farm from a guy who inherited it. The property was partly used as a junkyard prior to my uncle living on it and had no real in road.

 My uncle went about a half mile in from the main road and set up a tent, he used a local gas station restroom to brush his teeth and cleanup before working from sunup to sundown. He quickly saved enough money for a trailer and utilities. It was tough getting the trailer back a road that had pits that could swallow a car. He used broken up concrete and junk brick and block from each days work to build the road up. As the road got better he was able to turn his attention to building his house because he could now drive any truck back the road. He built his home while living in it.

 After spending years on his house he decided to build a garage using a used steel building that a local demolition company razed. My uncle worked on his property and in his garage from the time he would wake until he went to bed. One day he found out what pain really meant when he got a herniated disc in his back. But after weeks of being couch ridden and still with much pain he knew he had payments to make.He went straight back to doing some of the hardest work known to man and hasn't stopped working since.

After spending many years building his house and garage he finally got the property paid off. To date he has paid more in property taxes than he did for the property itself. Then one day he got a letter saying that his property was sold at a tax sale all over about 250 dollars.

 A misunderstanding on the final due date of about two hundred and fifty dollars allowed a man who is in the business of buying these properties to sweep in and upset it. My uncle has had to sell off prized possessions just to make this thief a offer that he refused and now has to go to court for a final ruling.

Here is a letter that my uncle wrote and told me to pass out to people on the interwebs.

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