Landlords In Foreclosure, Their Tenants, Water Shut Offs, No Trash Pickups

The following links are to stories on the problems of water shut offs and curtailed garbage pick-ups that are often faced by tenants with landlords in foreclosure who stop paying the utility bills:

• Jacksonville, Florida: Apartments In Foreclosure; Tenants Suffer,
• Hollywood, Florida: Hollywood's Gracewood Apts. Sees Trash Removed (The Owner Of The Foreclosed Property Had Earlier Failed To Pay Utility Bills);
• Haverstraw, New York: Haverstraw family rents home with no water since May;
• San Francisco, Cailfornia: East Bay: District continues costly water policy;
• Oakland, California: Renters tell of harassment in foreclosure proceedings (The lender stopped paying the water bill in a bid to evict them, Oakland duplex residents say. Activists say such tactics are on the increase);
• Providence, Rhode Island: Foreclosures leave some tenants high and dry (Landlords in foreclosure also failing to pay utility bills, resulting in tenants dealing with water shutoffs before ultimately facing eviction);
• Adams, Massachusetts: Renting Homes In Foreclosure, Utility Shut Offs, Trash Accumulatons, Code Violations Among The Accusations Against One Landlord;
• Atlanta, Georgia: Atlanta Apartment Complex Covered In Trash (read story) (watch video).

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