"Sewer Service" One Reason Why Unwitting Tenants Unaware Of Foreclosure Proceedings?

In New York City, a story in Metro New York suggests one possible reason why tenants unwittingly renting homes in foreclosure are unaware of the ongoing legal proceedings, only to get caught by surprise when sheriff's deputies show up at their front door to carry out an eviction:

• [S]ome [tenants] don’t even know their landlords are in foreclosure until the bank brings them to court. Three notices are supposed to be served before eviction, but many tenants never receive papers. “A lot of buildings have problems with mail, and there is ‘sewer service,’” [lawyer and director of the City-Wide Task Force on Housing Court Louise Seeley] said, referring to unscrupulous process servers who dump papers instead of delivering them.

Source: Beware broke landlords (Foreclosure crisis leading to more renters dealing with evictions).

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