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Suffolk home-auction residency rule ripped

July 30, 2011 9:35 PM By RICK BRAND rick.brand@newsday.com

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Suffolk County owns a boarded up ranch house in Mastic Beach with a two-car garage -- taken for unpaid taxes -- which has twice been put up for sale. Both times it's been on the auction block, it's been left unsold.

"It's just not working," Pamela Greene, Suffolk real estate director, said in a presentation to Suffolk lawmakers last week. Greene said the problem is the county law, passed in...

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