Woman Loses Home For Failing To Pay $6.30 In Tax

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Mark Melin
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A Pennsylvania widow having a difficult time coping with the recent loss of her husband is losing her home after overlooking a $6.50 delinquent property tax payment. Didn’t know about $6.30 The homeowner, Eileen Battisti, was still grieving for the loss of her husband, who paid all the bills, and missed the payment.  “I paid everything, and didn’t know about the $6.30,” Battisti said in an AP report. “For the house to be sold just because of $6.30 is crazy.” Proper legal procedure followed, say court participants The widow was given ample notice, the court ruled, before her $280,000 house was…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.