Background on 424 Memorial Parkway: This building became city-owned due to
tax foreclosure. At the request of the Memorial Park Block Club, the property was pulled from the standard IN REM
tax foreclosure auction in 2017.
The City of Rochester and Monroe County are now providing more direct information at their annual
tax foreclosure auctions about homes scheduled for demolition.
These properties represent less than a third of all vacant properties in magnet and Sunbelt cities, but about half of all vacancies in large legacy cities and roughly two thirds of vacancies in the smaller legacy cities, which face the greatest economic challenges, as detailed in the reportRevitalizing America's Smaller Legacy Cities.<br />The Empty House Next Doordescribes barriers to addressing vacancies, including cumbersome property
tax foreclosure processes, and state laws and bank practices that lead to thousands of properties being stuck in foreclosure limbo.
The loss of a deferral status may require a large tax liability to be repaid at once and could lead to
tax foreclosure, wiping out the mortgage lien status entirely.
If taxpayers are unable to pay, their property by law is eventually subject to
tax foreclosure.
involvement in shaping
tax foreclosure programs is particularly
As such, trial courts may exercise discretion in applying the uniform standing orders and may approve
tax foreclosure sales even when court-ordered appraisals are not filed in accordance with the standing orders.
Lottery24.Net explained, "Hall had discovered that the city had sold the house that had been owned by her family for over 30 years at the annual
tax foreclosure auction because she owed just a few hundred dollars in back user fees."
In 2007, it came to the Ingham County Land Bank through
tax foreclosure.
The property
tax foreclosure process in Michigan is also complex and lengthy.
The land sat largely dormant since the city first took the plot through
tax foreclosure in 1972.