Correction: County doesn’t get MH in bid strikeout

A Dec. 18 Gazette account of the county’s tax foreclosure action Dec. 12 incorrectly reported a Pullman mobile home, which failedto get a bid at the auction, would become the property of the county. A mobile home is taxed as personal property and does not become the property of the county under tax foreclosure law.

Under the law, the county can detain personal property to sell for payment of overdue taxes and fees, but it does not take ownership. Amount due on the Pullman mobile home listed on the sale was $1,330. Most of the sum was due for penalties, interest and fees. County policy in the event personal property doesn’t sell in a foreclosure action is to “walk away” from the property.