Your backyard can be sold and you would not even know

Champaign, IL neighborhood was unpleasant surprised when they recived a letter from the Nasty Joe company that there backyard pond and fence is now owned by them and that they have to pay cash or face connivance.
Two drainage ponds, a strip of land in a backyard, a fence that divides several properties, and a thin piece that runs the length of a whole street. Those properties all have the same things in common: No one was paying taxes on them, so they were up for auction.