More On Tenants Facing Foreclosure Evictions

Some links to recent stories on unwitting tenants getting evicted as a result of their landlords pocketing their rent while not making the mortgage payments, thereby allowing the properties to go into foreclosure:

• Atlanta, Georgia: WXIA-TV Channel 11 - Housing Crisis Hits Apartment Dwellers (story of a single mother with three kids who, along with 17 other families, will be evicted from an apartment building abandoned by the landlord; she unwittingly paid the landlord six months rent in advance),

• Palm Beach Gardens, Florida: The Palm Beach Post - Landlords fall into foreclosure, leaving tenants in shock, lurch (a single mother with two young kids who last month signed a lease for a townhouse; only two weeks after she had signed the lease, a man knocked on her door and delivered a mortgage default notice from the landlord's lender. The landlord hadn't made a mortgage payment in eight months.),

• Springdale, Arkansas: KHBS-TV Channels 40 / 29 - Springdale Apartment Renters Evicted After Owner Forclosed On (shocked tenants in complex of eight apartment units to get the boot),

• Venice, Florida: WWSB-TV Channel 7 - Venice couple evicted with no notice (couple who had been renting their house for more than two months, never missing a payment, are padlocked out of the home; everything they own is outside, covered with tarps. Along with their belongings, two cats and a dog are homeless now).

• Daytona Beach, Florida: Daytona Beach News Journal - Foreclosure frenzy hits renters (couple gets boot after only two weeks after moving in),

• Wichita, Kansas: The Wichita Eagle - Renters affected by housing crisis, too.

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