MONTPELIER, Vt.—When banking giant Bank of America swallowed up Countrywide Financial Corp. in 2008, Ray Bohannon got a new place to send his monthly mortgage check -- and an extra $275.50 in escrow payments for property taxes and insurance.
He was annoyed. "When Countrywide had it I paid my own taxes," said Bohannon, 67. "I always paid them and I didn't think I had to worry about it."
But Bohannon, who is semi-retired and cares for disabled people in his home, wasn't half as annoyed as he was last month when he got a letter from his town saying his property taxes, due April 10, had not been paid. He was delinquent.
Bohannon was not alone. Carol Cleland, municipal clerk and treasurer in the small Canadian border town of Alburgh, said Bohannon was one of 25 property owners whose taxes from Bank of America accounts were delinquent.
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