Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Foreclosure Screw-Up Leads To "Trash-Out" Of Las Vegas Woman's Home; Offered $5K For Her Trouble; "Suspects" Decline Comment

In Las Vegas, Nevada, KLAS-TV Channel 8 reports:
  • A Las Vegas woman says she is the victim of a horrible mistake that has left her with an empty condominium and lots of questions. Nilly Mauck lived in her condominium for two years and said she never had problem until this week when a series of strange events eventually lead to a company coming into her home and throwing away everything she owned.

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  • [M]auck says the reason for it is a mistake of address numbers. Her address is 1157 which is close to 1156 a condo that is in foreclosure. A few weeks ago the foreclosed home was suppose to get locks changed but Mauck says that's not what happened. "I came home to pick up something and there was a note on my door from the Brenkus Team of Keller and Williams Realty stating that they accidentally re-keyed the wrong door," she said.

  • It was a problem Mauck thought was fixed until she came home to find a man going into her home. Mauck says everything in her home was missing. She says she later learned her home had been "trashed out" - a process done to foreclosures where everything left inside is thrown away.(1)(2)

For the story, see Las Vegas Woman Victim of Foreclosure Mistake.

In follow-up story, see Attorney Claims Woman is Inflating her Loss in Foreclosure Mix Up.

(1) Mauck reportedly asked for $100K - $200K for her missing belongings and was offered $5,000, the story states.

(2) In a similar case, the Nevada Supreme Court last year approved damages of over $1 million to the Las Vegas homeowners of a house that was trashed out as a result of its misidentification as a foreclosed home. See:

posted by Home Equity Theft Reporter at 4:00 AM