A Mexiconian couple needed city action last week in order to sell their house.
The council voted 4-0 with Member Chris Williams absent to release the property owned by Edward and Shirley Winter …
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A Mexiconian couple needed city action last week in order to sell their house.
The council voted 4-0 with Member Chris Williams absent to release the property owned by Edward and Shirley Winter after a warranty deed was never filed on the property. The couple took over the property in 1998 and now want to sell.
The house was part of a project called the “Urban Homesteading Program” established in the late 1990s by the city, “to provide an opportunity for individuals to own a home and to increase the community’s assessed valuation by encouraging residential development on public property.” The tract was one of nine the city put into the program.
“We’re guessing to some extent it could have been the warranty deed was never prepared,” Deputy City Manager Roger Haynes told council members at a meeting on Jan. 8. “It could have been the warranty deed was prepared but didn’t get recorded.”
Haynes said the city does not record properties and that responsibility falls upon the purchaser.
