--- title: "Bucking the HOA system: Delinquent condo association unit owner tries bankruptcy, foreclosure, and buy back at sheriff's sale" description: Delinquent condo association or HOA unit owner tries to wipe the slate clean by bankrupting himself, putting condo unit in foreclosure only to buy back at sheriff's sale --- [Skip to content](https://www.condoassociation.com/blog/tabid/19257/bid/11560/Bucking-the-HOA-system-Delinquent-condo-association-unit-owner-tries-bankruptcy-foreclosure-and-buy-back-at-sheriff-s-sale.aspx#main-content) # Bucking the HOA system: Delinquent condo association unit owner tries bankruptcy, foreclosure, and buy back at sheriff's sale | [Budgets & Finance](https://www.condoassociation.com/blog/topic/budgets-finance) |   [Fees, Foreclosures, Delinquencies & Collections](https://www.condoassociation.com/blog/topic/fees-foreclosures-delinquencies-collections) |   ## What do you think? Question: When an owner of a unit in a [condo association](https://www.condoassociation.com/CondoAssociation/tabid/83434/Default.aspx) or HOA is delinquent in paying his [condo maintenance fees](https://www.condoassociation.com/blog/tabid/19257/Default.aspx?Tag=Condo+Fees) and then the property goes into foreclosure, then to a sheriff's sale can the [HOA](https://www.condoassociation.com/CondoAssociation/tabid/83434/Default.aspx) force the new owner to pay the past HOA dues of the previous owner as a condition of the sale? We are in the state of Indiana. I have tried to get someone in the industry to tell me exactly what a sheriff's sale involves (including the sheriff's office that I called 4 days ago have not heard back from yet) and so far I haven't been able to get any answers. Last week the owner of the condo unit said that the information regarding his unit going to sheriff's sale is a mistake but as of today the [delinquent property](https://www.condoassociation.com/blog/tabid/19257/Default.aspx?Tag=Deliquencies) is still being shown on the list for the Feb. 2 sale. There must be some way to get information about what [liens](https://www.condoassociation.com/blog/tabid/19257/Default.aspx?Tag=Liens) are required after the amount listed by the sheriff is met and the highest bidder takes ownership. I have been told that the owner who is not the [developer](https://www.condoassociation.com/blog/tabid/19257/Default.aspx?Tag=Developer+Transitions), bought the condo unit through his business or LLC and intends to [bankrupt](https://www.condoassociation.com/blog/tabid/19257/Default.aspx?Tag=Bankruptcy)[ the condo unit](https://www.condoassociation.com/blog/tabid/19257/Default.aspx?Tag=Bankruptcy) to buy it back through another business he currently owns for pennies on the dollar. As a matter of fact he may have already bankrupted that shell and thus sending the [property into foreclosure](https://www.condoassociation.com/blog/tabid/19257/Default.aspx?Tag=Foreclosure). That sounds illegal. How much access to that type of information am I able to obtain before the sheriff's sale. I just want to know if there are going to be complications after the fact if I am the highest bidder on the property. Can the sheriff's sale be cancelled at any time prior to the sale and if so under what conditions would it be? ## What do you think? Answers (7) #### What are your thoughts on this topic? ***Comments and postings are not legal advice**, but are the opinions of our readers. This forum and its contents are being monitored. Please be respectful of each other. *   ## Related Posts ### [How does condo association collect money from unit's sheriffs sale](https://www.condoassociation.com/blog/tabid/19257/bid/81073/How-does-condo-association-collect-money-from-unit-s-sheriffs-sale.aspx) ### [What happens in a sheriff's sale of property?](https://www.condoassociation.com/blog/what-happens-in-a-sheriffs-sale-of-property) ### [Should balconies be considered in calculating condo fees?](https://www.condoassociation.com/blog/should-balconies-be-considered-in-calculating-condo-fees) ```json { "@context" : "https://schema.org", "@type" : "BlogPosting", "dateModified" : "2024-10-01", "datePublished" : "2024-10-01", "headline" : "Bucking the HOA system: Delinquent condo association unit owner tries bankruptcy, foreclosure, and buy back at sheriff's sale", "image" : [ "" ], "mainEntityOfPage" : { "@id" : "https://www.condoassociation.com/blog/tabid/19257/bid/11560/Bucking-the-HOA-system-Delinquent-condo-association-unit-owner-tries-bankruptcy-foreclosure-and-buy-back-at-sheriff-s-sale.aspx", "@type" : "WebPage" } } ```