Tenants Evicted Because Of Landlords Being Foreclosed Upon
March 6th, 2009
Pasco County tenants are being evicted because of landlords being foreclosed upon. It is calculated that nearly 600 renters have been thrown out of their homes so far this year for no fault of theirs. They have been meticulously paying rents timely and yet have had to suffer the insult and injury of eviction.
Charonne Sellers of Wesley Chapel is one of the many who are on the march. Her living room is empty with only the boxes left to be removed. It was only in June that she and her family had moved in. Now it is shifting time all over again. It all happened without warning when she answered a knock on the door on 20th August. She was served with a foreclosure notice. She had been regular in her payment of rent amounting to $1,400 per month. Her only fault was that she was a renter. Because of a transfer in her job she had recently moved in here from Atlanta. Her landlord had been collecting the rent but had stopped paying mortgage dues since March 2008.
Julie Groshans is another victim. She was relaxing in her rented house in Port Richey when the summons arrived notifying her of impending foreclosure. She recalls the person serving the papers saying, “I’m here to inform you that these are foreclosure papers.” According to the notice her landlord had started defaulting from May 2008.
George Romagnoli of Pasco County Community Development Division said that similar stories are coming in everyday. The people are facing acute problems although they have a full lease. Suddenly the agreement vanishes into thin air. The County offers relocation assistance to those tenants who are evicted because of the landlords being foreclosed upon, but it is limited. Romagnoli admits that once the foreclosure notice is served the banks are reluctant to negotiate because it is the property they are after.
Some assistance to the renters is provided by Bay Area Legal Services.
Sellers is skeptical about trusting her landlord anymore. She rues, “Maybe I’ll come home one day and all my belongings will be in the front yard, and where is my family going to go?” Groshans too is in the same boat and comments, “It’s very sad that somebody could take advantage of people like that, especially the way the economy is right now.”
Neither of the two landlords involved in this matter was willing to speak to reporters.
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