Muskoka municipality Nov 28 TAX SALE, lousy jobs.

[bee]

Anyhow, I wasn?t very happy with Muskoka municipality.
After the tax sale happened, I called and asked Township for how much island N was sold, and they told me for 39000 (when I spoke with Jackie), and my bid was 35000$, so I was waiting for my deposit back. Instead,  I received letter on Dec 04 that I am highest bidder, and to send the balance ASAP (with in 14 days). Then, in the same day I had phone call from treasurer that the owner has paid taxes on Dec 03. So I could pay before then Dec 03. and got this land before he paid.
So, this law is sooo confusing, and in the future I can see some more problems as well.
I guess, I could rush with my money next time and get it...
Where I can complain about their lousy jobs ?

[Frank]

You have only yourself to blame.  You should have been at the sale on the 28th, and had your money in to them the next day.  You really have no one to complain to and no one to blame.  If things got messed up in the Municipal office you will never know, and it your word only.   Good luck on the next sale.

[Pfm1011]

First you have to understand that this is rare for a municipality to do a tax sale so they make mistakes. I dealt a bit with muskoka lakes prior to the auction a couple weeks ago and found them to be very helpful. Unfortunately ( or fortunately for the owner) the land was redeemed.

Even If you paid in full, it can take several days to get the deed registered so you could still have been out of luck, The owner can redeem until the deed is on the title. Doesn't matter if you paid in full, you have to have the deed registered. 

 These may seem like big deals to some of you but to the town it is day to day business so nothing is rushed and in reality we are outsiders and the town has a duty of care to the original owner as he is a local and probably knows many of the towns employees. I would hope that the town gives the full benefit of doubt and every opportunity to the land owners as someone losing land over taxes is a nasty deal if they are legitimately broke ( of course they could have made partial payments in the first three years so most are probably just smart asses who wont pay the tax

[speedfreeksteve]

If the owner redeemed the property 5 days (actually 3 business days) after the auction there's about a 0% chance (or less) that you could've had the property paid for, affidavits signed and the deed transferred into your name.

Generally the owner can redeem it up until the deed has been transferred, which usually takes a couple weeks from start to finish.

Just move on and don't worry about it. Someone made an honest mistake and it had zero impact on whether you got the property or not.