UPPER DARBY, Pa. (WPVI) — A 92-year-old woman who lost ownership of her longtime home in a tax lien foreclosure has died, and her family was forced out of the property Tuesday, marking the latest development in a case first reported last summer.
Gloria Gaynor died in early January, according to her family. On Tuesday, deputies and movers were seen changing the locks and removing furniture from the home, a property the family says was wrongfully taken.
“I’m saddened – very saddened,” said Gaynor’s daughter, Jackie Davis, as crews worked at the house.
Gaynor had lived in the home for decades. Davis said she believed the house would one day be passed down to her family.
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“I’m not going to cry, because God is going to figure something out one way or another,” Davis said.
When Action News first reported the story last summer, Gaynor was frail, in poor health and confined to a bed in her living room. Her family was fighting to save the home after a Lancaster County company, The CJD Group, purchased a $3,500 tax lien and foreclosed on the property.
According to the family, Gaynor missed her annual visit to the Delaware County tax office during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. When she eventually made a payment, it was applied to her 2021 tax bill instead of the outstanding 2020 balance.
“Leaving what is essentially a donut in her tax payment history,” said Alexander Barth, the family’s attorney.
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Unaware of the issue, the unpaid tax bill went to auction. The family says Gaynor never received notice of the outstanding debt or auction.
Despite widespread attention surrounding the case, the foreclosure proceeded.
In January, Gaynor was hospitalized and told she did not have long to live. Her family said her final wish was to return to the only home she had ever owned. She was able to do so and died one day later.
“She wanted to die in this home, and she was able to,” a family member said.
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The family said The CJD Group gave them until April 1 to leave the property or face eviction by the sheriff. With deputies now enforcing that deadline, relatives say the loss is devastating.
With an estimated $250,000 in equity in the home, Davis said the foreclosure represents the loss of generational wealth.
“This should be for me, my brother and my son,” Davis said. “What do we have to show for her hard, hard work? Nothing.”
Action News again reached out to The CJD Group for comment, but the company did not respond.
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