Former property owners, whose homes were foreclosed and sold at auction, may be able to claim any profit the county made from those sales beyond the tax debt they owed.
Earlier this year, the Michigan Supreme Court clarified a previous ruling to say that owners can make a claim on leftover proceeds from tax foreclosure sales retroactively, so before 2020. It’s an opinion that could hit county coffers and potentially affect tens of thousands of former property owners.
Now, former owners can make claims by filling out interest forms, depending on when sales took place . The deadline to make a claim for leftover money from tax foreclosures before Dec. 22, 2020 is March 31, 2025…