Legal Question in Tax Law in California

The property tax officials will argue that they had to serve you in person with the sale notice and tha can not be done with a Post Office Box. Since you know you did not pay any taxes for at least the last fiveyears, you know from the notices the send out that they could take your house after any 5 year period of time and taking your house meant they could then do with it as they wanted, incluidng selling it. Moreover, would you have paid the five years plus penalties and interest? Are there other facts that might help you?

You do not give eough information as to the contents of the house to make a proper analysis. How much time passed from the date of sale of the house to when items were removed. They might be able to argue abandonment of the personal property by you. The items tha were "afixed" to the walls might be deemed included with the sale of the property. Did they take the mising items, what was the value of those items, can you prove the items were taken after the sale and that the new owners were negligent in allowing that to occur.? We need to have at least that amount of information.