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You can’t be forced from your home without the new owner of the house going through landlord/tenant court. This is true in DC and Virginia.
See Axsmith.net for more details. Christine Axsmith, Esq. is a Washington, DC – based attorney specializing in foreclosure fraud, illegal foreclosure, real estate fraud. Her credentials can be viewed at her LinkedIn profile. The Axsmith Law website has a wealth of information for review related to elder law and foreclosure prevention.
Other sources of valuable information are the AARP website, the Federal Trade Commission website and the HUD website. See Axsmith Law web site to speak to an attorney.
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Sherman Mitzner
September 14, 2010
I have been living in my property for nine months after foreclosure, but the marshals haven’t gotten me out yet!
caxsmith
September 16, 2010
And you may be there for two years. BUT – save your money. Don’t spend it. Act like you have a mortgage ton pay and SAVE THAT MONEY. You will need the emergency fund when the eviction hits.
Stephanie Claudia Geissbuhler
September 10, 2010
Yeah, I’m interested in buying foreclosed properties? What’s the policy on that? If I buy a foreclosed property and the owner tries to recoup the loss, do I lose a deposit or whatever?
Stephanie
caxsmith
September 12, 2010
The law strongly favors the purchaser of the foreclosed property, as a general rule. You will need to look at the specific laws in the jurisdiction where you seek to buy.
Trixie
September 10, 2010
U R a pig,Jared whatevre every1 cleans up in DC xcept the 10nant. I have to pay like twelve hundred $ a month and they don’t have a laundry. Have u 4go10 that this is America and people have rights. i didnt vote 4 Obama 4 people like u 2 take advantage. B fair.
Trixie
Jared
September 9, 2010
It frustrates me that the bias in the District seems to be once again, on the tenant’s side. Last week at church, my minister referred to “the greedy innkeeper” or landlord. We are not rich OR greedy. My father was a Linotype operator at the Washington Star, he invested his money in small houses in the academic ghettoes of Riverdale, Hyattsville, and Brentwood Maryland, and the damn kids going to College Park trashed his houses!
And, I tried to evict a non-paying tenant from my house, and I am a lower level bureaucrat, and damn it,he called a lawyer and a friend of his, some damn building inspector, and reported me for all these ridiculous building violations until I had to pay the guy to leave. It makes me sick!
Jared (Last name withheld by request)
Trixie
September 9, 2010
Dude, i think these landlords r total pigs u know? u have 2 B a freakin millionaire 2 live in the District & like they can evict u no matter what.
Eff that, man
Anybody go see Lady Gaga last nite?
Trix
Randy
September 8, 2010
That’s so helpful to know. I thought that since the new mayors have come in, landlord/tenant relations had changed. When I lived here in the 80’s, DC was a “tenants town” and my sister, who lost her job, couldn’t pay rent immediately, but it took nearly a year to start eviction proceedings, and in the meantime she was able to financially get herself together and pay the rent.
But I understood things had changed, and I lived in Petworth for a time and saw so many people’s property on the sidewalk! I will contact you if I have trouble with my mortgage, Ms. Axsmith. It’s good to know there is an attorney out there for the “little man”.
Randall Pulaski