Some 11,600 tax-foreclosed homes with sky-high water bills went up for sale Wednesday at Wayne County’s annual auction, Joel Kurth reports in the Detroit News.
The water bills at the homes total $21.5 million. That’s an average of $1,600 apiece, while 112 of them have bills of $10,000 or more and 484 have bills of at least $5,000, county data show.
And the records likely reflect a fraction of the truly big bills on abandoned homes. The Detroit News was only able to examine the records of homes eligible for the auction after three years of tax delinquencies. Officials at the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department denied a Freedom of Information Act request for data on all residential delinquencies, citing privacy.
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