Grandson: MERS Illegal Foreclosure Forced Sale Of Dying Gandmother's Home; Hope Still Alive In Attempt To Recover Title

In Ingham County, Michigan, WILX-TV Channel 10 reports:

• Nick Reeser's love for his grandma is written all over him. "Grandma was a huge tigers fan, this is a tribute to her," he said, pointing to a still-healing "D" tattoo on his leg. When she died just weeks ago, she left him her house. So he went to the Register of Deeds' office to get a copy of the deed and mortgage.
• "He finds out when he got here there had been a foreclosure on his grandmother's house the last few months before she passed away," said Curtis Hertel, Ingham County Register of Deeds. "Nobody was notified, my grandma was in no mental or physical state to make decisions on it," said Reeser.
• To make matters worse, it was a MERS foreclosure, one of 469 just in Ingham County deemed illegal by the Court of Appeals.
• "MERS did not own the note, they were in the chain of title but you need to have both to foreclose by advertisement," said Attorney Brian Dailey.
• Dailey has filed a class action law suit against the Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems company (MERS), saying its crimes are many.(1) "Violating people's rights, trespassing on their property, taking their property when they shouldn't be," he said.

For more, see Illegal Foreclosures Prompt Class Action Suit (Hundreds of homeowners, just in Ingham County, have been illegally foreclosed upon, according to the Court of Appeals).

(1) For the lawsuit, see Depauw v. Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc.