Six Seniors In Hospice Care Home In Foreclosure Get Booted As Landlord Pockets Rent, Stiffs Bank; Ambulances, Medics Called In To Carry Out Eviction

In Henderson, Nevada, the Las Vegas Sun reports:

• The six senior citizens were strung to IV drips in a Henderson home converted into a geriatric care facility. The hospice home, a big stucco beast, was leased. The tenants, a couple who cared for the aging adults, never missed a rent payment. The owner of the house, however, was hardly so diligent. He lived outside the state and beyond his means. He stopped paying the mortgage and never said a word. Hello, foreclosure.

• Henderson deputy constables went to the home in March 2007 with a judge’s order: Everybody out. Even the seniors sinking into their sheets had to clear out — within 24 hours. The bank wanted its house back, like, now. This was the first anybody in the home had heard of the foreclosure.

• Ambulances were called to transport the elderly evictees. Temporary housing had to be hustled up overnight. Last-minute medical specialists had to be hired. The whole thing made your stomach turn, Henderson Constable Deputy Director Stephen Kilgore said.

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• On June 2, members of the [Nevada Legislature's] Subcommittee on Mortgage Lending heard testimony from Deputy Director Kilgore, who shared the geriatric home horror story.

The [Nevada] Legislative Commission Subcommittee on Mortgage Lending and Housing, a group researching legislation to protect renters, is planning to draft legislation that would make it a felony for homeowners to hide looming foreclosures from renters, according to the story.

For more, see When renter pays, owner doesn’t: You’re out, tenant.

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