Saturday, June 27, 2009

Our First Lawsuit!


and hopefully our last.


A few months ago Devin and I got a "notice of trustee's sale" posted on our front door. This surprised us, because we were on schedule with our mortgage payments. Looking closer at the notice, we saw that it was addressed to the previous owners of our house. The sale of our house last June was never recorded! So as far as the county records showed, the people we bought it from still owned the house and had been neglecting payments for the past year. Long story short, Devin has been contacting the title company almost daily to try and get the situation taken care of before our house went up for auction (which was scheduled for June 19). They have been not the easiest people to deal with, not returning his phone calls, repeatedly saying "the person who deals with this isn't in..." etc. So yeah. June 19 came and went, and we're still in our house, so we just assumed it had all been taken care of. Today we got confirmation of that. We received a summary of our lawsuit that told us that the threat to our house "has been eliminated." The title company screwed up here. They are paying for a lawyer at no cost to us. But we still get our names in a lawsuit (which is weirdly exciting...to me at least). So that's it! Our prayers have been answered.
***That is a HORRID picture of us, but I had to document the moment.

2 comments:

Stacie Aho said...

Oh my goodness, what a nightmare! You guys seem to have such a good attitude about EVERYTHING... and it looks like this hasn't hurt your spirits much either. I admire that in you both!

I'm glad it's all getting fixed!

john and brenda said...

I'm so thankful that is over! I love that you are weirdly excited to have your name on the lawsuit! You slay me! HeHeHe!