My mother is in a nursing home for good. She has $2000 to her name. She gets to keep $30 a month of her social security and the rest goes to the nursing home. She is on medicaid. Her home is up for sale and worth maybe $35,000. She doesn't want to pay her real estate taxes or insurance on this home as it is vacant and she only has the $2000 left to her name. If she stops paying these, won't the back taxes get paid whenever the house sells? Can she be in any trouble?
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Most real estates sales require the Seller to have paid all current and past taxes. However, depending on the time it takes to sell the property, it could put your mother's ownership at risk. If she doesn't pay the taxes, eventually there might be a tax sale of the property and eventually the bidder at the sale could get title. That is a few years off, however. There are other risks of having a vacant home; the homeowners insurance may be at risk if the house is left vacant. If there is a fire or other catastrophe, she risks losing everything. Not a good idea.
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