Rental Property Investor from Atlanta, GA

[Tuyet Changivy]

We bought the property in June 2019.There was a lien attached to this property since 2014{ a demolition bill of $12,770... by County}. The County has mistakenly assigned that bill to the wrong address. This issue had not been corrected until sometimes in 2017.The lady at the Office of Tax Commissioner said that we are supposed to pay that bill {$12,770 by December 20th 2019}, even though that issue occurred well before we purchased that property. She suggested that we talk to our closing Attorney whom we closed the lot and the Title Insurance. We had contact with the Closing Attorney since October 23th 2019. On November 4th, they answered that the Attorney was on vacation and the Secretary was looking into this.Four weeks later, nothing happens. The Title Insurance is not answering yet. So I need some advice as soon as possible.

[John Underwood]

I would call around at the county office until you can find the person who can fix this. They made the error they should fix it. Once you find the right person it should be easy to get fixed. I wouldn't get an attorney involved until I had exhausted all avenues with the county. Get all your paperwork together to prove the error so that they can easily review the problem without having to do research to get back to you. An Attorney can do this for you but they will be charging a hefty hourly fee for something you should be able to do yourself.