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New York man loses $800,000 home over unpaid water bill — "I would have just paid it"

New York man loses $800,000 home over unpaid water bill — "I would have just paid it"

Ellsworth Toohey
Aug 20, 2025
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New York man loses $800,000 home over unpaid water bill — "I would have just paid it"
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A Brooklyn homeowner who spent 23 years paying off his mortgage woke up to find contractors drilling through his locks — all because of a $5,000 water bill he says he knew nothing about.

Filmore Brown's three-unit building, worth $800,000, was foreclosed and sold at auction after New York City transferred his unpaid water deb…

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