Apache Shores couple losing ground – literally
No one could have prepared Brian McKinley for what the strangers told him that day.
Three people came to his home in Apache Shores to announce they had purchased one of the lots beneath his mobile home for unpaid back taxes.
McKinley was stunned. His wife, Teresa, was heartbroken. The McKinleys always had paid their taxes. The news that someone had bought a lot under their home was bewildering. They thought their property was one lot.
What they didn’t know is that their property consists of two lots, but the man who sold the property to them, Mike Burk, had deeded only Lot 25 to them. The second parcel — Lot 26 — remained in Burk’s name, according to the property appraiser’s office.