The property owner I rent from hasnt been paying his property taxes for a while so he was given some bad advice from a lawyer he knows ,"dont pay and it will go away".This didnt sound right so I went digging for info at the county tax office,county records and finally a lawyer office who deligates the city affairs on different matters ,one being unpaid taxes.The short of it is a Foreclosure on the property will be deverted if action is taken quickly ,its apparent that the lawyer had something of an ace card up his sleeve. If he was just giving bad advice thats one thing ,but if he was hired as council he could lose his license ,right? not all lawyers are bad ,this one though has no scrupples.

Buy the property at the foreclosure auction If you can pick it up for 25-30% of value, why not?

Unlikely that it will go to auction.
That is not typical for municipalities.
But, buy the tax liens, then you can sue for foreclosure if the liens remain unpaid for whatever the time period is in your state.
At the very least you will get all your money back with interest, and you stand less chance of getting tossed out.

Unless your landlord's attorney has already bought the liens.....

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What if I find out the leins have been bought by the lawyer ? Is this an offense against his license or is this practice of sweep and dump a property owner common?

If he's profiting from bad advice given in a professional capacity, he should be strung up by the yarbles. Yes, it's an offense against his license.

there has to be more to this story.

The property owner you rent from must have recently visited the Pot states and still be high, because it doesn't take a genius to know that property taxes are owed, and the second you don't pay, is the second leins are going to be levied.
If hes willing to believe there are no consequences to not paying his property taxes and the problem will "go away", then his problem isn't bad advice from a lawyer, but pure personal idiocy.

No offense if the property owner is your friend, but seriously, thats pretty amazing. Believing some nonsense like "if you don't pay it will go away" with owed property taxes is the same type of brain lapse as believing that you don't have to register, insure, or plate your car because some guy told you that was totally cool with the cops.

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Agreed.

NFW any lawyer makes the statement"if you don't pay it will go away".

That's simply BS created by your "friend".

Just about any moron knows that you NEVER get out from paying a municipality.

I have my own personal disdain for one specific municipality this week as it managed to extract $1500. from me for the failure to file for a rental permit.l

That's painful..........no matter how you cut it.

Yarble...

Never heard that before.

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Perhaps the "it" that he was referring to was the house.

That could well be true ,it depends on what the definition of "it" is, I see a bright future in politics for this slick country lawyer, a friendly handshake all the while taking your wallet with the other.If the exact quote was "In some cases if you dont pay it will go away " doesnt change the fact that trusting a lawyer in a legal capacity to take care of ones affairs was tabled for possible gain on his side,the details will come out latter.I placed 2 calls ,spent 2 hrs down at records and had all the details ,this lawyer had 3 to 4 weeks back peddeling all the while pulling money for his services, scum. A string of events that bring some people to their knees financially are ever winding ,details about how he got here Ill spare you.It was interesting that the secratary at the lawyers office ,good looking by the way, looked at me as we talked and stated ,"this is a mandated tax given by the state ,people try to fight it all the time but lose big".Her desks gets several people led on this way was clear by her exactness on the subject,Truth from one side of the fence while the other gives you a rolling of the clock .

I think most of us are surprised that anyone in their right mind would swallow some nonsense like whats attributed to this lawyer as advice. If your landlord did actually act on that advice that was given as he states, then he may be the boneheaded sucker of the century, this is how it appears without the whole story.

Ive gotten plenty of bogus advice in my property management business, but I usually check things out with my own research and having several lawyers review what has been said or promised. One thing is certain, if any lawyer were to tell me that if I don't pay my taxes the problem would go away, Id start laughing at them.

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Is this the lawyer in question?

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Thats him ,good god man ,thats him.

You always have to consider that things might not be as they appear. Sometimes other consideration takes the place of cash changing hands. For example there was a scandal once that was headlined as " Sums in Lieu of Taxes ". That lawyer might have been working both ends of the deal.

Sometimes a good lawyer cost more than a cheap lawyer because the good lawyer knows who to pay off and how to pay off.

Tax avoidance is involved in a large percentage of the economy.