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My dad died in 2003. He had a second wife. She died a few months after him.
My dad made a will leaving basically all his assets to her except for the mortgage he was carrying for house he and my mom owned outright. He sold it to son of neighbor when he intended to marry my stepmother and the ongoing note was the only part of his estate that came to my sister and myself when he died.
After his marriage to stepmother, he moved into house she owned from prior marriage. Kept in her name only.
Several years later that house was flooded and my stepmother sold it. They then moved into a mobile home they bought in both their names and had put on private land--not owned by either one of them.
The county where the mobile home is located still sends a tax bill to my dad and stepmother even though they have been dead for 9-10 yrs.
They were entitled to tax discounts because of their age--
when my stepmother's daughter became her heir, she never changed the title apparently and while she pays the taxes they are based on erroneous information.
When caught, she'll probably get a hefty tax bill. When my mom passed, and she had prop 13, we had to pay the difference from the date she passed till sold. I cant believe the daughter is taking such a risk.
I don't care much for my in-laws, so when the stepfather inlaw's mother died, I called the appraisal district to see if the over 65 exemption should be taken off the house as I wanted their taxes to go up, and the CAD said the exemption would go to the heirs if they're living in the house. I was flabbergasted. I had no idea! She said it happens all the time, and as long as the house was her primary residence, the exemption can remain for her son, my in-laws.
I also agree with the above that there is only tax on land if you own the land. Are they paying a personal property tax for the mobile home? That can't be very much if they are.
the tax roll shows that it is just the mobile home--and the daughter of my stepmother does not live in it at all--
as far as I can tell there is no tax actually being charged---but can't tell if that is because of the exemptions like DV and OA--disabled veteran and old age which the daughter is not entitled to claim since she isn't a DV and at the time was not over 65--against the low value of the mobile home maybe those exemptions mean no tax is owed...
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long story short--
my stepmother targeted my dad and married him a few years after my mom died to skim his money (not that he had much) and take what she could when he died...
she and her daughter were very mercenary although acted like butter wouldn't melt in their mouths...they fooled us for long time...
and probably the daughter is still fooling people about her "generous" heart...
when really she is very narcississitc and borderline psycho...
it is not that she is getting away with not paying a minimal amount of tax--
it is just that she is getting away with anything
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