Treasurer Sabree offers ways to avoid foreclosure, but residents should act soon

WAYNE COUNTY, MI – Wayne County Treasurer Eric R. Sabree on Thursday urged residents who owe property taxes for 2019 or prior years to get into payment plans by March 14 or pay their property tax bills in full by March 31. Otherwise they risk having the property go into foreclosure.

This will mark the first year that occupied properties will have been foreclosed upon since the start of the COVID pandemic. In both 2020 and 2021, Treasurer Sabree successfully petitioned the 3rd Circuit Court to halt the foreclosure of occupied properties, because of hardships caused by the pandemic.

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