In the USA, can you lose your home even after it is 100% paid off? - eviltoast

Let’s say that you buy a home in cash and have 100% paid off. Could you still lose it somehow?

  • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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    11 months ago

    To certain extents, I think the government has rights of expropriation of land in other countries too. Sometimes you can sue the government for it too. It’s a messy biz.

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        11 months ago

        They aren’t saying the us government can take land in like France whenever. But like Canada has expropriation laws available where if needed Canadian land can be seized from the land owner, usually with compensation.

        This is often done for things like infrastructure, highways and such. Turns it from needing the owner to be willing to sell into “we are buying this land now, heres what we think the land was worth”

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        11 months ago

        I’m talking about the respective government of the country in question, not the US government…