The Brief
- Five months after buying a house, a man got a water bill for more than $19,000.
- Milwaukee Water Works said they had not gotten an accurate read since 2020.
- The man’s title company said the city provided no info indicating a potential issue; the utility said no final bill was requested, as is customary before a sale.
MILWAUKEE – An unexpected water bill is costing a Milwaukee house-flipper thousands of dollars. He didn’t even own the property when the water was used.
Unexpected bill
The backstory:
In August 2024, Mark Tolliver bought a house on Richards Street in Milwaukee’s Harambee neighborhood with plans to renovate and resell.
“I liked about the house that it was a corner house, single family,” he said.…