Read this story carefully and tell me what you would do. This is your Amerika people:
I am writing seeking legal assistance in an illegal removal of personal property. I lost my home in Cass county Michigan to foreclosure and was in the process of removing my personal property on May 29, 2012. I was in the process of removing my property and when I arrived back home I find a company in the process of removing my personal property without my knowledge. I was told that I abandoned the property (however, I had gas, electric, medications and my dog at home ““ how does this constitute an abandoned property??)
When I questioned the deputized sheriff- who not only managed the removal company, but who was also supposed to act in my best interest in protecting my possessions ““ I was told that my possessions were taken to the dump and they could not retrieve them. Funnily enough, my most valuable possessions such as my clothes, my 8 year old son’s clothes, 3 TV’s, an x-box, a collectors set of football cards (which was a gift to my son for his birthday the next day!), medications, gun, dvd/vcr players, coins, jewelry, Ipad, Laptop, Tablet and family photos were all removed and gone in a separate truck before I got home. The less valuable possessions were being loaded up when I got home and being taken away without allowing me to claim them. It was my understanding from the USFN that a removal company had to allow me to claim my possessions up to 24hrs. from the date of removal (or in some cases stored in a facility for 30days for me to reclaim). Regardless, I was refused any opportunity to claim my belongings even though I had a truck ready and waiting.
I literally have nothing but the clothes on my back. I am on disability and living on a very limited, fixed income. The items removed from my home took me a lifetime to collect and many are irreplaceable. I have benefited from the Church Diocese for clothes as well as food vouchers which have been helping me to get by, but that does nothing to replace what was lost. How can this happen? How can a company come in and just do what they want without having to follow the law or even the most basic instinct of decency? I was given no written notice of any kind that this company would be coming this day (or any other day) and yet they came in and basically robbed me of my belongings. I also think that having a deputized sheriff being the same person who manages the removal company is also a gross example of conflict of interest in it’s basest form ““ not to mention a huge abandonment of ethics.
Any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated, I have no idea how to proceed from here. I would like to pursue legal action and I can be contacted at the below phone number or email ““ ( I am writing this from a friends computer account because they also took my computer.
I cannot believe that in the united states of America that someone can break in your house and steal or trash the belongings and keepsakes a family has taken a lifetime to collect and can legally be taken away in three hours. To drill the lock out of someones door and take everything a man and his 8 year old son have of value and tell me in the three hours I was away from the house to throw photo albums and every stitch of clothes we owned in the trash and steal every piece of electronics and tell me there is nothing I can do does not sound like America I am pleading to you for help I know this cannot be legal and being on disability I really need help.