New York man loses $800,000 home over unpaid water bill — "I would have just paid it"

A Brooklyn homeowner who spent 23 years paying off his mortgage woke up to find contractors drilling through his locks — all because of a $5,000 water bill he says he knew nothing about.
Filmore Brown's three-unit building, worth $800,000, was foreclosed and sold at auction after New York City transferred his unpaid water debt to private investors. — Read the rest
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