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For the past two years, foreclosure properties have been growing and spreading throughout the United States like a wild fire. Foreclosure rates have skyrocketed putting banks out of business and people out of their homes. Our economy is facing one of the toughest economic climates of its history and the root cause of this crisis stems from the sub prime mortgage miscalculation.

It is very well known to any body that doesn’t live in a cage, that foreclosures are piling up in almost every city in the United States. What is less known although, is that there is more than just bank foreclosures that are for sale. Tax foreclosures, also known as tax deeds, are similar to bank foreclosures in the sense that the homeowner owed a delinquent payment but instead of to the mortgage company starting the foreclosure the delinquent payment was property taxes so the city begins the foreclosure action.

In many cases of tax foreclosures, the property has already been paid for and the homeowner has only to make the tax, utility, and insurance payments on the house. But one of the biggest ripple effects to come from housing crash, is that the unemployment rate has skyrocketed. Many Americans are out of work and can’t make their normal payments. Therefore cities and tax authorities are foreclosing on back taxes more so know than ever before.

Tax authorities and cities, tax property owners to pay for many different things like road construction, trash removal, public schools etc.. So cities and municipalities need the property tax money to continue running their local governments. When property owners fail to pay these taxes the local governments become in jeopardy of not meeting their budget. In order to recoup their lost tax money, they begin tax foreclosures on property owners that are delinquent. If the property owner can not come up with the delinquent tax than a foreclosure begins, and the property is sold at a foreclosure auction.