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    pumpkin1967 Posts: 3, Reputation: 1
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    Mar 12, 2009, 05:44 PM
    Owe real estate taxes
    I am about to walk out my home in houston Texas I owe backtaxes school etc and has been contacted by lawer and told water will be cut off if I don't pay my real estate taxes etc. if I walk out of my home can my wages be taken for taxes owed on this property since I will be walin out please help me
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    Mar 12, 2009, 05:48 PM

    Walking out of a home doesn't relieve you of your responsibilities towards it.

    If the home is sold for back taxes, then you would be relieved of that responsibility.
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