Unpaid Property Taxes

Did you see the Tax Sale Notices posted on three parcels of common property owned by the HOA?

I didn't get there in time for photos, but I was contacted about them. The signs were removed quickly.

Why wouldn't the HOA have paid the property taxes when they were first due? The HOA must receive a bill annually for each parcel, and it should expect the bill and have the property taxes set aside for prompt payment.

And, even if the HOA doesn't receive a bill, it knows (or should know) that taxes are due every year by a certain date on every real estate parcel owned by the HOA, and it should make the payment by the due date, whether it received a notice or not.

Are late fees, fines, and/or penalties associated with late payment? Who pays that? The HOA or the party responsible for making the payment? That would be CAMS.

[Edited 9/29/2023] Justin Martin wrote to Gus, in part: 

"The public notice was necessary because the properties in question were not transferred correctly by the developer of the Lakes of Barony [sic]. The management company received no notification other than those posted notices. Any penalties for those parcels are being paid by CAMs at no expense to the HOA."

Additional comment by Gus: 

The public notice was necessary because the taxes had not been paid, not because the properties were not transferred correctly.

If the properties were not transferred correctly, the Secretary and the President should have caught that, or CAMS should have caught it. If the HOA had involved the attorney of the HOA in the legal matter, the attorney would have caught it.

If CAMS is paying the penalties, it seems to me that CAMS was at fault.

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