Sunday, September 16, 2007

Tenants Get The Boot After Landlord Lets Building Go Into Disrepair, Foreclosure

WOOD-TV Channel 8 in Grand Rapids, Michigan reports:
  • Eight families living in a Wyoming [Michigan] apartment complex have until Friday night to find a new place to live after the city condemned their building last week. Inspectors say the Taft Avenue complex is unsafe and unsanitary. The problems at the 16-unit facility include leaky pipes, electrical wiring in disarray and cockroach infestation.

Reportedly, the landlord told city officials that the premises was in foreclosure. For more, see Wyoming apartments condemned, tenants kicked out.

For other stories on tenants unknowingly renting homes in foreclosure, go here, or here, or here. unwittingly equity skimming beta