Neighbors vanished - any suggestions?

[MsDarkstar]

It sounds like she started the move out process to beat the sheriff's sale for a foreclosure & maybe her sale was recalled. Easier to leave her things in the house for storage while she's living elsewhere (maybe mom & dad's furnished guest room) until the bank finishes whatever they're going to do.

If you know her name, I'd suggest searching on oscn.net (Oklahoma court network). You can also google for the Cleveland County Sheriff's auction site & search for your street name (if you don't know her name) to see if there's a sale scheduled or already executed. Cleveland County assessor's office website will also allow you to search by address to get an owner's name.

[Pete]

It has been my experience, sadly, that many poor people routinely walk away and leave perfectly good stuff.

As a former landlord in OKC, I can attest to this. Several times I stopped getting rent checks and when I went by to check on things, the people were gone, leaving tons of stuff behind.

I think they mainly go squat with friends/family and have nowhere to put their stuff in the interim. They may come back and get some of it when the foreclosure is finalized, but they probably don't have money for a new place, so are likely couch-surfing with no place to put their furniture.

[FRISKY]

I know of two houses that the bank got back because the mortgagers walked away. The man that lived across the street bought the houses to remodel and flip. It took him a couple years before he started work on them. It was a good thing the neighbors didn't take (steal) any of the items from the house because the new owner (their neighbor) would probably have found out.

[kevinpate]

pw405, see your pm's.

In a nutshell, the neighbor's place is headed to a sheriff sale next month after a foreclosure case was completed early in 2011.

former neighbor is alive and kicking as of last November, and this appears accurate as of a couple weeks ago as well.

[BBatesokc]

I checked my memory against my wife's. She concurred that the house we bought in the mid 90's (tiny 1970's house) had been owned by the bank for about a year as a foreclosure when we got it. The bank had all the utilities on (electric, gas and water) the whole time and this is supported by our home inspection report we had done just a week after looking at the house. The report shows all the utilities were on and working. I assume the bank felt it was better to have everything on and know its working for potential buyers. I do know they were desperate to sell and made what we thought was an excellent deal considering the house now appraises at twice what we paid and will be paid off in two years.

[Steve]

Beat me to it Kevin. Yep - just another foreclosure.

[kevinpate]

Yea, I was up early today, even though today is a hermit day for me (darn it, hermit days ought be sleep-in days, but no such smile from lady luck this time.)

[pw405]

Thanks for the info Kevin! Glad to know they are still alive, even if a bit fugitive-like lately!

[Stan Silliman]

Do you know their names? Google them, facebook sleuth, stuff like that. I agree - they probably walked away from it. You can check online to see if they have some civil suits filed against them. If they have kids and they were murdered, someone would have noticed that they weren't showing up at school and that no receiving school had requested records. The city knows they aren't there if they are mowing their grass.

Is her last name Webb? Because I keep getting creditors calling about her and I've had this number a year and a half. <vbg>

East Coast Okie,

Have you moved to Oklahoma?

[Double Edge]

There was an interesting show done in CA when the housing market first collapsed showing a make-ready company cleaning up houses. Their crew literally backed up dump trucks at nice houses and filled them up with good furniture, big screen TVs, toys, grills and all sorts of stuff, most of it probably obtained with credit cards and easy financing plans.


The owner of the company said they did that with several houses a day. They had made unsuccessful attempts in the past to find charities or other companies who would take, sell or make use of the furniture, but in the end, could not balance the need to get the houses cleaned out with the problems in dealing with it in a more cost effective manner than dumping it.

[PennyQuilts]

East Coast Okie,

Have you moved to Oklahoma?

Yup, I moved back home in December 2009 (had the phone number before that). They let me change my screen name and I put it in the introductions (or someplace) but a lot of people didn't see it. I cannot tell you how thrilled I am to be home.

[kevinpate]

There was an interesting show done in CA when the housing market first collapsed showing a make-ready company cleaning up houses. Their crew literally backed up dump trucks at nice houses and filled them up with good furniture, big screen TVs, toys, grills and all sorts of stuff, most of it probably obtained with credit cards and easy financing plans.


The owner of the company said they did that with several houses a day. They had made unsuccessful attempts in the past to find charities or other companies who would take, sell or make use of the furniture, but in the end, could not balance the need to get the houses cleaned out with the problems in dealing with it in a more cost effective manner than dumping it.

In a word, sad.