Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Michigan

I bought a home in May 2010. The realtor told me and wrote in the sales contract that the bank, who owned the property, had paid the property taxes through June 2011. So I paid a prorated rate back to the bank for the time I owned it until then. A couple weeks ago I received a property tax bill which was for the entire year. When the bank paid the tax in December, the realtor treated it as being paid forward for January 2011 to June 2011 when she knows the city treats them as being paid backward, which would have been for July 2010 through December 2010. She knows the city treats tax payments this way and still wrote the contract stating something different. Can I sue her for knowingly and willingly writing false information in a contract? Or the bank for the prorated rate I paid to them for something they had not even paid?

This was my first home purchase and I did not have a lawyer look over the papers before I signed. Also, after asking around, I found that this is not the first time she has done this. I know she has been confronted about this before which is why I know she knows how the city treats the property taxes.

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