He’s refusing to do evictions without a living breathing landlord in the case with proper court papers.
Where mortgage firms see pieces of paper, my deputies see people.
Yet no matter how difficult they are, evictions are part of our job.
What isn’t part of our job, however, is to carry out work on behalf of the multi-billion-dollar banks and mortgage industries.
Too many times, our deputies arrive at a home to carry out a mortgage foreclosure eviction, only to find a tenant — dutifully paying their rent each month — who is unaware their landlord stopped using that rent money to pay the mortgage. They had no fair warning that they were about to be thrown out of their home.
That’s because, in many cases, the banks have done nothing to determine, in advance, who’s living in the building — even though it’s required by state law. Instead, those banks expect taxpayers to pay for that investigative work for them.
That stops today.
We won’t be doing the banks’ work for them anymore.
We won’t surprise tenants with an eviction order intended for their landlord.
This move by the sheriff will not go unnoticed. He has placed himself in a great tradition of American sheriffs who have upheld the spirit of the law over the letter of it. Unfortunately there is also a tradition by moneyed interests of making such heroism come with a heavy price. Ask Sid Hatfield.
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