Free Talk Live - foreclosure

Sheriff's Deputies Violently Evict Cancer-Stricken Disabled Woman

phonon — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:34:05 +0000

"They break down my door," Black recounts. "I'm sitting there in my wheel chair. I'm about 100 pounds of shriveled-up cancer and a threat to no one." What came next, she says, was much more harrowing. "Sergeant Bob Sima puts a gun to my face, finger on the trigger, no safety and walks around me," Black states, pausing to emotionally gather herself. "There's no reason, except for to threaten my life, for an intimidation factor, to put a gun to my head."

Victim or menace? Man, 89, fights city eviction

slayerboy — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 12:22:20 +0000

An illiterate, widowed 89-year-old man is fighting the city to stay in the home he once owned and where he raised his eight children.

The city foreclosed over a $632 delinquent tax bill.

Homeowners escape property tax by rebuying homes at auction

phonon — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:30:53 +0000

It's legal. But that doesn't mean it's fair, said homeowner Marilynn Alexander, who lives on Fairmount next door to one of Cusimano's rentals. The landlord owed $26,200 in taxes and other fees on the bungalow, but bought it back in October for $1,051. "He shouldn't be able to get away with that," said Alexander, a 57-year-old laundry worker who said she scrapes together every year her $1,500 in property taxes at the house where she's lived for 20 years. "That's not a fair break to anybody else out here."