Tables Turn: Deputies and Movers Show Up at Bank to Seize Property for Homeowner - Polidicks

Source: [url]http://www.winknews.com/Local-Florida/2011-06-03/Tables-Turn-Deputies-and-movers-show-up-at-bank-to-seize-property-for-homeowner-[/url] COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. - A bank foreclosure story you've got to see to believe. [b]A Collier County couple turns the tables on Bank of America, the bank that tried to foreclose on their home. Now, the family is foreclosing on the bank! Even bringing trucks and deputies ready to seize property.[/b] The foreclosure nightmare started when Warren and Maureen Nyerges paid cash for a home owned by Bank of American in the Golden Gate Estates. They never had a mortgage whatsoever. But, the bank fouled it up and wound up issuing a foreclosure through their attorney. The couple took their case to court and after a year and a half nightmare the foreclosure was dropped. A Collier County judge said Bank of America has to pay the couple's $2,534 legal fees for the error. After more than five months the bank still hadn't paid up. [b]So, the homeowners' attorney did just what the bank would do to get their money, legally seize their assets.[/b[ [b]"I instructed the deputy to go in and take desks, computers, copiers, filing cabinets, including cash in the drawers," Attorney Todd Allen told WINK News.[/b] Outside the Bank of America on Davis Boulevard, several deputies stood by with movers ready to start hauling out the bank's office supplies and furniture. Inside, the homeowners' attorney was locked out of the bank manager's office by deputies while the bank manger tried to figure out what to do. Allen says the manager was visibly shaken, "Having two Sheriff's deputies sitting across your desk, and a lawyer standing behind them, demanding whatever assets are in the bank can be intimidating. But, so is having your home foreclosed on when it wasn't right." [b]After about an hour the bank finally cut a check to satisfy the debt, and no furniture was taken. A representative for Bank of America issued a statement saying they are sorry for the delay in issuing funds. They claim the original request went to an outside attorney who is no longer in business.[/b] As for Allen, he calls this a symptom of a larger problem he sees often in the courts, where banks don't perform their due diligence on foreclosure cases. "As a foreclosure defense attorney this is sweet justice."

The tables have turned!

I don't know what to say, I'm impressed how this turned out, including the courts decisions.

I guess you could say they [i]laughed all the way to the bank.[/i] [IMG]http://i55.tinypic.com/11j91yg.jpg[/IMG]

Why didn't we think of this before?

That's downright brilliant, and also goddamn satisfying.

This is the best thing ever. I would love to have been one of those deputies.

that's certainly a creative way of dealing with things

Scumbag bankers throw settlements behind mounds of red tape as means of prolonging the payment.

Banks can eat my shit. [editline]4th June 2011[/editline] All of it.

Change of plans

Great victory.

why is matt50 rating everyone winner

because your all winners

Imagine the feeling you would get when standing there in front of the bank as it happened.

And while this little drama was going on, another hundred people across the country stood on their front lawns with their kids and watched the bank's goons carry off their stuff because the adjustable-rate mortgage they were suckered into getting quadrupled with no warning and the bank foreclosed, therefore allowing them to sit on the property for a few years until the market recovers and they can offload it at a profit on top of pocketing all the past payments on the house. It's an amusing story, but it doesn't change shit.

[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;30233622]And while this little drama was going on, another hundred people across the country stood on their front lawns with their kids and watched the bank's goons carry off their stuff because the adjustable-rate mortgage they were suckered into getting quadrupled with no warning and the bank foreclosed, therefore allowing them to sit on the property for a few years until the market recovers and they can offload it at a profit on top of pocketing all the past payments on the house. It's an amusing story, but it doesn't change shit.[/QUOTE] Way to ruin the mood, jeez.