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(WASHINGTON) After saving up for three years during which they sometimes worked 80 hours a week, Tawanda Hall and her husband purchased their dream home in t
Walter Bibikow/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) After saving up for three years during which they sometimes worked 80 hours a week, Tawanda Hall and her husband purchased their dream home in the suburbs of Detroit in 2010. The five-bedroom house was supposed to be their "forever home" it had enough room for their family, and the location offered good schools in the area for Hall s two kids.
"It was almost like a dream," Tawanda Hall told ABC News Senior National Correspondent Steve Osunsami. "It was a brick home. It had a big yard, open space, a lot of different opportunities around the corner from school, around the corner from the rec center and the library."
The house was purchased for $67,000, according to public records. Hall told ABC News that after they moved in, she and her husband put in a lot of money to renovate the home.
"Every time we got some money here or there, we just put it in," Hall said. "I don t even know where we got hal
The Supreme Court is reviewing a practice where the government will take someone's home to pay a tax debt then, when it's resold, keep more money than the taxes owed.
Walter Bibikow/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) After saving up for three years during which they sometimes worked 80 hours a week, Tawanda Hall and her husband purchased their dream home in the suburbs of Detroit in 2010. The five-bedroom house was supposed to be their "forever home" it had enough room for their family, and the location offered good schools in the area for Hall s two kids.
"It was almost like a dream," Tawanda Hall told ABC News Senior National Correspondent Steve Osunsami. "It was a brick home. It had a big yard, open space, a lot of different opportunities around the corner from school, around the corner from the rec center and the library."
The house was purchased for $67,000, according to public records. Hall told ABC News that after they moved in, she and her husband put in a lot of money to renovate the home.
"Every time we got some money here or there, we just put it in," Hall said. "I don t even know where we got hal