This is about house property tax for 2006.

I bought a house in Feb/06. The courthouse automatically mails the tax bill to the person that owns in it Jan. every year- which this person is dead in this case. I didn’t know anything about it until I received a letter from TLS unlimited that they had bought the lien in May/07 at a the courthouse sale. The original tax bill was 0 now they want 50. They bought it in May/07.

My problem is the courthouse never notified me that I owed this tax because they sent it to the person that owned it in Jan and I didn’t buy it until Feb. They did send me a bill for 2007 and 2008 tax years and I paid them - so they had my address down. They just failed to take the time to look up the correct owner - which you would think they would have done when they sent out the delinquent notice?

Can I dispute the sale of this tax lien because I was never notified properly? And if I have to pay, is that an unreasonable amount for TLS Unlimited to charge?
The problem is that the courthouse sent the tax bill to the wrong person so it never showed up in my name-therefore it wasn’t on the 2007 and 2008 bills as being delinquent for 2006. They said they did put it in the paper- under the original owner’s name- that is the problem- I was never notified. The owner was actually a company that forclosed on the dead womans property.

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