Kentucky 75-year-old's house seized, sold over $288 unpaid HOA dues

[haele]

65. I read the article, the warning order lawyer warned them she hadn't been notified.

Court summons are hand delivered, and need to be signed.
Official notices are certified mail.
If she wasn't at home, she couldn't have recieved the certified mail, it would have been returned. The stupid thing she did was toss out the HOA notices, but if she assumed she owned her house free and clear and this was like a "normal" city neighborhood where all she had to do was pay taxes and for the services she used, I can see why she thought they were asking for money for a service (the pool) she wasn't using.

In this case, I could see where it would seem like the offers my step-sister in law soliciting the payment of greens fees because the development was built around a nice 18 hole golf course. (She doesn't golf - but they assume her guests might and constantly pester her to think of them...for only an additional $150 a year!)
Now, greens fees would be an addition to her HOA, which is included in an escrow account she had to agree to if she wanted to buy the house, required to pay for her garbage pick-up, fire and ambulance services, taxes, and homeowner's insurance.

The association and the courts apparently didn't even contact her neighbors to see if she was still living there. It appears they assumed that, like most of the elderly people living in that retirement community, she had just died or "moved" (I guess that means "moved into an assisted living facility&quot .

Records hadn't been checked to see if she had been declared dead and the property passed into trust.

This appears that the homeowner's association did not do their own due dilligence before proceeding on the assumption that they were foreclosing on an abandoned property.


Haele