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Well, yeah, that and the city doesn't own the place.

That's not quite true if nobody's paying the property taxes.

If the structure's been classified as blighted, (at current rates), the taxes owed on the property will exceed the property's value within 10 years, and the city then has a clear-cut case to seize the property and sell it.

What's more baffling is that the DC government doesn't even appear to have made an attempt to determine the ownership of this property after its owners failed to pay taxes year after year.

Is there really no procedure to deal with properties that have been obviously abandoned and have no clear owner?

by andrew on May 24, 2012 1:35 pm • link • report

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