[biosurfer1]

Thanks Dueller for all the advice. The letter was written just about as you said, hopefully this will get everything taken care of...

I went through all of the paperwork I got with the house and I did find reference to the fact that there were back taxes on the house. My parents came over tonight and I gave them to my mom since my uncle is a lawyer and wanted to take a look at everything, so she was going to drop them off.

I didn't get a chance to write down the exact wording but it was somehting to the effect of :

There was an Appendix A and then Appendix B. I forget the exact wording on the title of Appendix B, but that page had the current year property taxes, 1st installment/2nd installment, and how much they would be. the next item on the page said it is determined that there are deliquent back taxes on the house of $xxxx.xx amount for roll year 2006-2007, and that's about it. It did say something about exceptions (or maybe exemptions?) at on the top of the page, but does not go any further about the taxes, and that is the only mention of back taxes on any page. This is one of the many, many pages the escrow agent throws at you during the signing. I slowed down and read about as much as I could while signing because I refused to just sign stuff I didn't at least somewhat read, but unfortunetly this is one of the pages that even now, when I read it carefully, I could not understand, so I figured it best to have uncle lawyer take a look.

My first thought with the words "exceptions" at the top was "oh $hit, I am on the hook" but it mentioned the current year taxes and the first installment was paid by escrow, so now I'm not sure. Hopefully I'll find out early next week. I'll still be sending the letter no matter what.

The saga continues...