Evictions Moratorium - Michigan Tax Sale, Post Purchase Evictions

[Eric P.]

So we have the evictions moratorium in place that provides protections for tenants to prevent evictions due to covid. In Michigan, if one were to purchase a property from a tax sale auction, can the new owner evict the occupants? The way I have read the moratorium is that it would not provide protections for a person in this scenario. The moratorium states that the hardship and inability to pay rent must be due to covid. First of all, if the property was seized for non payment of taxes, this all occurred years before covid, so the hardship was not due to covid. The county would have already seized the property around the time covid began. Secondly, say it was owner occupied... there is no rent payment, they just didn't pay taxes. Of course, the owner of the house may not have paid his taxes, but the home could be rented to and occupied by a non owner. This is the situation that sounds closer to what the evictions moratorium provides protections for.

Does anyone have any insight into this... can I evict someone after purchasing a property at a tax sale auction in MICHIGAN despite the current evictions moratorium?