December 24 th ...

[Sinifar]

Okay, it is Christmas Eve, well not yet but tomorrow... here is the job ticket ..

Change locks on a foreclosed house for a lawyer. Location not yet determined, not sure what type of locks....

This is a nasty surprise waiting to go off. If the building still occupied? How are you going to evict them? On X-mas EVE??? If it is still occupied how are you going to get their junk out? do you have any idea of what kinds of a mess they will leave behind? Why isn't the sheriff handling this?

All I can say is this, IF I am going out to do this job, I am going locked and loaded. Nothing is worse than foreclosing at this time of year. Most judges will await the turning of the year before they start with the evictions. I Know because I work for the local sheriff / process division who handles this type of stuff and Deputy Rodriguez hasn't called me lately. That is my contact over there.

So the question is what would you do in this situation?

Just curious, and will follow up on a later post.

Sinifar

[jimu57]

Have you seen the eviction or foreclosure documents?

[zeke79]

Okay, it is Christmas Eve, well not yet but tomorrow... here is the job ticket ..

Change locks on a foreclosed house for a lawyer. Location not yet determined, not sure what type of locks....

This is a nasty surprise waiting to go off. If the building still occupied? How are you going to evict them? On X-mas EVE??? If it is still occupied how are you going to get their junk out? do you have any idea of what kinds of a mess they will leave behind? Why isn't the sheriff handling this?

All I can say is this, IF I am going out to do this job, I am going locked and loaded. Nothing is worse than foreclosing at this time of year. Most judges will await the turning of the year before they start with the evictions. I Know because I work for the local sheriff / process division who handles this type of stuff and Deputy Rodriguez hasn't called me lately. That is my contact over there.

So the question is what would you do in this situation?

Just curious, and will follow up on a later post.

Sinifar

It's simple, you walk away if it is being lived in. Paperwork or not, do you wanna be the arsehole associated with booting a family out of their home on Christmas eve? That is a social media and local media nightmare that can only end terribly for your business. Just my $.02.

[cledry]

Well around here we have to have a deputy when we do an eviction. I've had to boot folks out at Christmas, in fact I am the one who gets sent on these jobs at Christmas because I don't celebrate Christmas or perhaps because I am grumpy I don't know. Not a nice thing to have to do. A few years ago I did one where the 16 year old daughter was home alone and she had to move all of her stuff including presents into the front yard. She was crying and trying to reach her dad on the phone.

[zeke79]

Jim

It's a rough job. We do what we have to do. I'd skip if I could.

[Sinifar]

Okay here is the follow up -

The paper work is okay. Only problem? It is a BAR ... this is where it gets interesting.

We get in, and it is a large basically empty room, a few chairs and boxes left around. As you look into the place you note to your left is a "porch" area with a table in it and looking ahead there are two doorways. One leads back towards the kitchen and rest rooms, and the other towards the rear door. In the hallway leading to the rear door is the stairs going up. Top of the stairs is the door to the apartment. There is no other entry or exit. Getting back towards the outside door is the stairs down to the basement.

Turns out the guy is still living up there and at this point all we can do is change out the front door lock, which we do. The guy can use the back door to get in and out. By the court order he was supposed to be out last week, but is having problems moving the whole bar thing. The lawyer gives him another 30 days to vacate.

This will follow up in January some time. For now the bank has the keys to get into the building which they did not have before, and the lawyer has a key for it as well.

Not exactly the best resolution but for now ....

Will follow up with this as it develops. Should be interesting what happens next.