No answers after foreclosure crew empties wrong building (updated 4/1/13)
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Coupland is a small farming community located between Taylor and Elgin on Texas Highway 95 in the eastern portion of Williamson county.
The company that repossessed the items is listed with a "C" rating from the BBB.[/font]
COUPLAND — The workers who were supposed to clear out his neighbor’s foreclosed house instead cleaned out Mike Moors’ barn, making off with his wife’s wedding dress, their love letters, his boat, his backhoe, the works.
Moors wants to know where his stuff is and when he’ll get it back. The answer might be never.
“Are my things in storage somewhere?” asked Moors, 53, an unemployed construction worker who has been asking the same questions for more than a month. “Have they sold it at auction? How do I explain to my wife that she may never get her wedding dress back? There were many other heirlooms taken that are priceless.”
Safeguard Properties, the Ohio company that hired the crew to prepare the house next door for foreclosure in December, acknowledges the error and says an insurance company is verifying Moors’ claim and will soon have information for him. But not yet.
More at http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local/foreclosure-crew-empties-wrong-building/nWmgp/ .
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Lawyer says couple’s belongings wound up in landfill
Mike Moors’ stuff — including his wife’s wedding dress and love letters from their courtship — was evidently thrown in a dump after it was mistakenly seized last December by workers hired to clear out a foreclosed property.
“They said they put it in a landfill nearby. We don’t know where,” said attorney McNab Miller of Houston, who is representing Moors in a claim against Safeguard Properties, the company that hired the crew. Miller said he’s in negotiations with Safeguard but that no settlement has been offered.
“I’m also confident my property has been disposed of,” said Moors, who also does not expect to recover a deceased aunt’s antique ceramic figurines or a 100-year-old trunk that were among the items in construction trailers that were hauled off his property.
The foreclosed home that was supposed to be cleaned out is on County Road 460 in Coupland, behind Moors’ property. A fence separates the two properties, but the workers still went to Moors’ barn, about 100 yards away from his neighbors’ house. Along with the trailers, they took a backhoe, a boat and a small printing press.[/font]
More at http://www.statesman.com/news/news/statesman-watch-lawyer-says-couples-belongings-wou/nW8Hn/
[font color=green]Moors protested last week outside of CitiBank in downtown Austin holding a sign that read, “Where’s my wife’s wedding dress?”
“The police officer came and said I could stay there all day as long as I remained on the sidewalk and did not go into the bank,” Moors said.[/font]
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