Residents Face Water Shut-Off, Foreclosure Eviction As Mobile Home Park Owner Fails To Pay Water Bills, Mortgage Payments

In Florence, Colorado, KOAA-TV Channels 5/30 reports:

• Faucets have run dry for tenants of the Shady Lane Mobile Home Park in Florence, CO as they learn their landlord hasn't been paying bills--and soon they'll lose their homes. "Everybody's angry," said John Custer, who moved to the community 5 months ago. "There's no way people should have to live like this." [Last week], Custer came home to cook dinner and take a shower, but the water just trickled out of his faucets.

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• Now, several of the residents have received notices that the property is in foreclosure. It will go up for auction in January and they will have to leave their homes. They stopped paying their rent because the water was shut off, and now some say their wages are being garnished.

For more, see Landlord's financial problems hit tenants.

For story update, see Life without running water.

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