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Let’s say that you buy a home in cash and have 100% paid off. Could you still lose it somehow?

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[–] buzz@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If you do some crime and they will take all your property including house.

U could drive without insurance and hit someone on the road and they can sue u and take ur house.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

ooh I didn't know that! someone without insurance rear-ended my vehicle but I chose not to pursue it because then my own insurance rates would've gone up. But heck I didn't know I could have gotten a house out of it 😄 okay but judging by the state of that guy, I doubt he had a very glamorous living situation.

[–] Pappabosley@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago (4 children)

You could own a room in a crack-house

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Honestly I doubt he had even THAT much going for him ☹️

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

I mean, you could rent that out for a couple grand nowadays. “Market rate” baby.

[–] GreenPlasticSushiGrass@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

That sounds like the premise for a new Tim & Eric series.

[–] And009@reddthat.com 2 points 11 months ago

Side bitch pnp

[–] squiblet@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

If you’re injured, or have a lawyer and doctor say you were, yeah… you don’t literally get their house but they might have to sell it to pay you. More often, their insurance company would pay.

[–] lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

You probably wouldnt have gotten the house. Rather he'd have to sell it to pay the debt.

[–] rekabis@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

someone without insurance rear-ended my vehicle but I chose not to pursue it because then my own insurance rates would've gone up.

Somehow, this sounds deeply wrong. Your insurance should cover you regardless of what happens. If it’s an act of god, the insurance company should just swallow those costs. If it’s caused by a third party who is not their customer, they should go after the company that insured the other party, or the other party directly if uninsured.

No matter what the circumstances, if you are not at fault you should never see an increase in your rates, no matter how catastrophic the damage or the costs to make it right.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Huh ok that's good to know

[–] buzz@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Well look, you can claim neck pain and inability to work anymore. That means the accident took away your income for life which could be recouped for you with from offenders property.

I'm simplifying - but this absolutely happens. I was on jury duty where the case was that someone got killed in the accident and the other party was injured and coming after the property of the guy that got killed.