How do save my house while being behind on my property taxes?

The County Tax Collector does not sell your home for unpaid taxes, plus the penalties and interest, for 5 years after the first tax bill goes unpaid. Nonetheless, the penalties and interest are expensive. You need to pay the taxes ASAP. Better to borrow the money to pay them than to leave them unpaid and incur all those penalties and taxes. See a good loan broker who should be able to show you how to fix this. I recommend John Holmgren in Montclair Village in Oakland. If you appreciate this free advice, please remember to refer me to any friends or acquaintances who need a lawyer. Referrals are still our best source of new business. Do you have a revocable living trust to protect your heirs against probate? Probate takes forever, is expensive, and is annoying. Do your family a favor. Set up a trust, and put all your property, especially any real property, into the trust. Since it is revocable, you can change it, add to it, take property out of it, or even cancel it completely, at any time. We set up such trusts, provide a pour-over will as a back-up for any property that does not make it into the trust, provide you with blank durable powers of attorney for health care and financial decisions, in case you become incapable of making such decisions while still alive, and convey one piece of real property to the trust, usually the family home, for $1500.00. If you would like to hire me to do this, let me know, and I'll send you a list of the information I need.   Dana Sack