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Barbara Ryan, 57, paid off her $650,000 home in South Charlotte and paid the state their share so they wouldn’t steal her home. But thanks to an “error” in the Mecklenburg County accounting system, armed agents of the state showed up to her home and threw this paraplegic, legally blind woman out on the street. Deputies refused to allow her to grab clothes, a phone, money, credit cards, and shoes before kicking her out — she had nothing. She would roll herself into an elevator in a parking garage to sleep for nearly two weeks as she tried every day to talk to someone to fix this mess.She couldn’t go back home because the couple who bought the house from the county had already moved in. .Two different courts have since ruled that Ryan paid what the county said she owed days before her house went on the auction block , a payment that, under North Carolina law, should have kept the house in her hands. .Ryan is now renting a place and saving money to pay legal fees totaling well into six figures so she can sue the county for restitution knowing that all of her possessions, including her parents’ ashes will never be returned.