In an unfortunate series of events involving taxes and a decades-old unregistered deed, the Municipality of the District of St. Mary's sold Nelson Miller's cottage without his knowledge.
A winter photo of the Miller family cottage on East Loon Lake in Guysborough County, N.S.Last February, Nelson Miller was confused when he got an electricity bill for his cottage. The 83-year-old rarely used his rural Nova Scotia cottage in winter.
In 1979, Miller bought two parcels of land on East Loon Lake, about 55 kilometres north of Sheet Harbour, N.S. He built a small cottage on the roughly 35,500 square-foot property. Eventually the property was put up for a tax sale and bought by Luke and Christina Collings in June 2021. "That was our trigger. Those things all together, just didn't sit right and we knew something was up," Christina said in an interview alongside Luke from their home in Boylston, N.S., in Guysborough County.
The municipality paid the Collings back the $28,893 they paid in the tax sale plus legal expenses and interest, while the Collings agreed to give up their interest to Miller and he signed a new deed.The Collings feel strongly that St. Mary's should have done more, and triple-checked whether the taxes Miller was paying on the lakeside parcel might connect to the property next door.
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