A Baltimore homeowner says her property was sent to tax sale over an unpaid supplemental property tax bill even though her mortgage company had already paid it. The city had applied the payment to the wrong address.
Sarah Gun had no idea she had an unpaid supplemental tax bill until letters and emails from nonprofits began arriving to notify her that her property was on the tax sale list.
“The [City] sent some notices to my address, which is a rental property and it’s registered with the city, so I was never actually notified myself. They do have to notify the mortgage company, so they did, and the mortgage company paid the supplemental tax bill back in April,” Gun said. “And then the city applied it to the wrong address and they sold my tax sale lien back in August.”…