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One of two things is going to happen. One, the owner is going to pay the back taxes and redeem her property from the city, and then it will be hers to do with as she chooses. Or, two, the city will sell it to someone for the back taxes, and then it will be theirs to do with as they please. The later is the more likely.
At this point there is no way for adverse possession to enter into it, providing your state even allows for that. You would have to have been in full and complete possession for the required statutory time, and that didn’t happen. At this point, anything you do will be considered trespassing and they will very likely throw you in jail.
Someone is going to have to pay the property taxes to get title. Chances are, that if the taxes haven’t been paid for five years, that someone has been buying the tax certificates as investments at sale each year, and now that the required amount of time has passed when they do the next sale they will ask for a Treasurer’s deed and get the property.
The only option available at this point is to work out a deal with the owner, pay the taxes in her name, and have her deed the property over to you as repayment. This is not going to be easy.
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