The same thing almost happened to me over a $25 special sidewalk assessment (charged when the roots of a tree the city planted 25 years before I was born buckled the sidewalk). My mortgage company never paid it, because it was billed separately by the city. The only notice they tried to send me was a registered letter that I never got, because I only had 3 days to pick it up at the local post office, which was only open 8-4. I got lucky in that I sold the property, and as part of the closing process the foreclosure was discovered before it was completed. Between traffic ticket money going city's bottom lines, civil forfeiture, and this, Michigan is running a criminal racket.
The same thing almost happened to me over a $25 special sidewalk assessment (charged when the roots of a tree the city planted 25 years before I was born buckled the sidewalk). My mortgage company never paid it, because it was billed separately by the city. The only notice they tried to send me was a registered letter that I never got, because I only had 3 days to pick it up at the local post office, which was only open 8-4. I got lucky in that I sold the property, and as part of the closing process the foreclosure was discovered before it was completed. Between traffic ticket money going city's bottom lines, civil forfeiture, and this, Michigan is running a criminal racket.
The same thing almost happened to me over a $25 special sidewalk assessment (charged when the roots of a tree the city planted 25 years before I was born buckled the sidewalk). My mortgage company never paid it, because it was billed separately by the city. The only notice they tried to send me was a registered letter that I never got, because I only had 3 days to pick it up at the local post office, which was only open 8-4. I got lucky in that I sold the property, and as part of the closing process the foreclosure was discovered before it was completed. Between traffic ticket money going city's bottom lines, civil forfeiture, and this, Michigan is running a criminal racket.