[il-talk] Fw: Article from Chicago Tribune News 2013 11 01

Tue Nov 5 23:48:53 UTC 2013

This is mean.  She and her family did nothing.   

Sincerely,

Robert A. Hansen
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On Tuesday, November 5, 2013 12:25 PM, Lin H. <iwannacu2 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

That's good, Rob!  It's not fair  what  that the woman had to endure!  We 
>have to keep advocating and get the word out to the right people, so tthese 
>kinds of things don't keep happening to the Blind or any other Disabled 
>person!    Sincerely, Linda
>
>-----Original Message----- 
>From: Rob Kaiser
>Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 12:04 AM
>To: NFB of Illinois Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [il-talk] Fw: Article from Chicago Tribune News 2013 11 01
>
>I agree with you Robert. We need to let blind people know what is happening
>to other blind people. I forwarded the article to several people as well as
>the nfb of California listserve.
>
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>-----Original Message----- 
>From: Robert Hansen (NFB Related)
>Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 4:53 PM
>To: Jemal Powell ; NFB of Illinois Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [il-talk] Fw: Article from Chicago Tribune News 2013 11 01
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>At the bottom of this email it says we are not to forward this sttuff.
>I wonder about that.  I know we do anyway.
>
>Just wondering
>
>RH
>
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>On 11/4/2013 6:26 PM, Jemal Powell wrote:
>> Here is a sad, but unfortunate article  from the Chicago Tribune, about a 
>> blind woman.
>>
>>
>> ----- Forwarded Message -----
>> From: NFB-NEWSLINE Online <nfbnewsline at nfb.org>
>> To: Jemal Powell <derek2872 at yahoo.com>
>> Sent: Friday, November 1, 2013 7:35 PM
>> Subject: Article from Chicago Tribune News 2013 11 01
>>
>>
>>
>> Blind woman faces abrupt eviction \ Home's land sold for $43 after church 
>> doesn't pay taxes. By Carlos Sadovi, Tribune reporter; WGN-TV 
>> contributed.. A blind woman is facing eviction from her northwest Indiana 
>> home of 55 years after the land it sits on was bought at a tax sale for 
>> $43 without her knowledge. . She got screwed on this bad," said Lake 
>> County Treasurer John Petalas. The new owner has filed eviction papers in 
>> court and, in the meantime, is charging Dolores Pittman, 67, $300 a month 
>> to remain in the house in Cedar Lake, about 50 miles from Chicago. She has 
>> been paying that amount since May but it's a hardship, she said. 
>> Previously she had been paying $10 a year to the town to rent the land. If 
>> I had money, I'd just say, 'To hell with it,' and go off someplace," said 
>> Pittman, a former librarian. An attorney is looking into the matter but 
>> has told her it doesn't look good, she said. Pittman said she moved into 
>> the home with her parents when she
>>   was 12. It was four days before Christmas, and my little brother was 4. 
>> And we moved in during a snowstorm and the first thing I put up was the 
>> Christmas tree because it was important that Santa knew where to come," 
>> Pittman said. It was security that we had a house. My mother said she just 
>> wanted a house that she knew she could die in. At first, her parents 
>> rented the home from a Lake County, Ind., church, the Lake Region 
>> Christian Assembly, which used the land as a retreat. The home -- but not 
>> the land -- was sold to her family for about $16,000 in the late 1970s or 
>> early 1980s, she said. The family paid a $10 annual rental fee to the town 
>> of Cedar Lake, which they believed had acquired the property from the 
>> church, she said. But over the years, the church claimed to still own the 
>> property. The church did not pay property taxes. (The church) just didn't 
>> pay the taxes, I never got a notice," she said. All the time they (the 
>> town) were saying they owned
>>   the property. I was paying rent to the town. Pittman said she was never 
>> told that the dispute was eventually settled in the church's favor, and 
>> she continued paying the $10 to the town. About three years ago, the land 
>> was sold at a tax sale for $43. Pittman said she was never notified by 
>> officials. Petalas, the Lake County treasurer, said the church had 
>> conveyed land to the town but not -- it turned out -- the property 
>> underneath the home. The land underneath the home was still owned by the 
>> church. Until 2005, the church was not responsible for paying property 
>> taxes because it had a not-for-profit status, he said. Then changes in 
>> state law removed such status from vacant property and the church was 
>> issued tax bills, he said. But the church never paid them. So in 2009, the 
>> land went to a county commissioner sale and (it was bought)," Petalas 
>> said. They (the church) just ignored it. Cedar Lake's town manager, Ian 
>> Nicolini, could not explain why the town
>>   still collected a rental fee from Pittman when it no longer laid claim 
>> to the property. He declined further comment on the tax sale, saying the 
>> town is being sued by the person who bought the land. The owner could not 
>> be reached for comment. Nicolini said officials have been working to "make 
>> the transition" comfortable for Pittman. While she appreciates people who 
>> want to help her, Pittman said through tears that she doesn't want to 
>> leave her home: "I want to know, am I going to be in here on Christmas or 
>> am I going to be out? ---------- csadovi at tribune.com This article is 
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