30. Another Blight to Delight - Many Twists and Turns

 This four square style house dates from about 1930.  A combination of the 2008 banking crisis together with the collapse of a marriage led to an incomplete ban foreclosure for the mortgage. The ocuupants were evicted but the deed was never transferred by the bank. So, the evicted occupants remained the owner of record. Theoretically, they could have remained in the house until the deed was transferred. The bank though did not let the property to become tax delinquent until 2013. The house was exposed to Upset Tax Sale in 2014 and 2015. In 2016 it went to the County Judicial Tax Sale and an investor family bought the property. However, the legal talent engaged by the County and its Tax Claim Bureau to prepare the title was not diligent in their work. The inadequate legal notice to all parties of interest later was discovered after the family investors had replaced the heating system, water tank, updated the electrical service, restored wall shingles, repainting exterior and interior, repair of gutters, removal of intrusive shrubbery and vines. In late 2016 the house was sold only for the investor family to learn of the title defect when title insurance could not be secured for the mortgage. The responsible attorney was sued and the the title was perfected in 2017. The rehabilitated house was sold in 2018.