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who see the arrangement as

A23 - Sunday News, September 27, 1981

REPEAT of popular
Senior Citizens
promotion by Shoppers
Drugmarts takes place
Thursday (Oct. 1). Left,
Bryan Bird, associate
owner of Shoppers,
Park Royal, presents

«repayments and then an investment — who Z draw Prine 0 prevowe .
where options aren’t bought changed their mortgage deliberately default, then ; caer rs. ) ut
the municipality pays the arrangements. buy back the option by Caldw (centre). ae
outstanding taxes and retains Others get behind on their repaying - one year’s out- 2 looks eartine
the option itself. taxes and then just can't standing taxes and then Q

“There is no jeopardy of afford to catch up. appear on the list the ba
not collecting the taxes,” he And then there are those following year.
insists. ; —

GAMBLERS .

He says of people who
participate in the sale: “They
are gambling from the outset
that they might end up with a
piece of property and are
tying their money up ata low
rate of interest.”

In reality, he adds, the
only chance a bidder has of
taking possession of the
property is if it belonged to
someone who died without
paying the taxes and had no
next of kin to inherit the
home.

The only time he recalis
anybody actually getting a
Piece of property on which
they paid the outstanding
taxes was when a man
bought the options of all the
properties being sold — and
ended up getting a smail
patch of land “which was no
use to anybody.”

Bernard could not recall a
single instance of a
delinquent West Van tax-

| payer actually forfeiting his
| home.

Palmer says people end up
getting their properties listed
in the sale for a variety of

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