Sheriff's Department Takes Family's Home and Contents Using a Fake Eviction
U.S. Navy veteran Ted Visner and his wife, Kathy Smith
of Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, have been living out a nightmare. It started
two and a half years ago, when the family fell victim to an apparent
real estate scam by a local sheriff's department employee.
Ted Visner says they bought their former home on a land
contract, only to learn seven months later, that the seller, Isabella
County Sheriff's Dept. employee Shelly Sweet, was not making monthly
payments on the house. A bank foreclosed on the property, all
unbeknownst to the Visner/Smith family.
Ted Visner, who builds custom homes for a living, said,
"Although we were paying Sweet every month on the purchase of the
property, she had not been paying the underlying mortgage and the home
fell into foreclosure." I asked Visner if he had records of those
payments, he said he does, including canceled checks. You won't believe
what happened next.
"On a weekend Sweet knew that we would be out of town,
she offered the contents of our home to her friends and coworkers at the
Isabella County Sheriff’s Department, claiming we had abandoned the
home. Many took her up on her free offer deal and took over $55,000
dollars worth of our personal property."
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