HOA and Trustee foreclosure

[Khanh Tran]

HOA foreclosed the property in 2015 and the house is vacant and HOA have paid the property tax since 2015. The bank decided to foreclosed the property in 2018. Does the winner of trustee sale need to pay back the property tax to HOA?

[Ron S.]

With the only information you provided to go on, short answer is No. the HOA "owned" and benefited from that ownership during the time they owned it and was taxed accordingly for that ownership. if they didn't "benefit" from the ownership, I'd question the logic of the HOA but that would not absolve them of the fact that they get to eat those costs. That would be like the HOA decided to put a new kitchen in it and decided they'd bill the new owner after the lender foreclosed. Ain't gonna happen. They can send all the bills in the world they want to but that doesn't mean they have any right to collect the money.