Tax Collector, Loan Servicer Payment Screw-Up Leaves Blameless Homeowner Facing Foreclosure

In Slate Hill, New York, the Times Herald Record reports:

• The foreclosure notice was the ultimate insult. After four months of battling with the Town of Wawayanda, Orange County and her mortgage company over an error she didn't make, Andria Housell got the letter last week: The mortgage company was threatening to foreclose on her house because she "owed" them the town and county taxes they had paid on the wrong property. "They keep calling me for the balance due, and harassing me," Housell said. "My credit card limits have been lowered. Obviously, it's affecting my credit report."

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• "The bank sent the wrong amount of money to them, and the tax collector applied it to the wrong account," said John McCarey, real property tax director for Orange County.

For more, see Woman stuck in mortgage mess (Bank wants her to pay for taxes applied to the wrong property).