going into homes and knocking down doors. here is what is going on. a bank is repossessing the wrong woman s home when they should have cleared out the house across the street. they go. in clear everything out, sell at a sheriff s sale. basically she comes home, finds out her house has been cleared out. mike pike wrong house. like operating on the wrong limb in the hospital. mike: right arm not left arm. alisyn: here is the owner s explanation. come to the house and, you know, going to put my key in the lock and it doesn t work. they repossessed my house on accident, thinking it was the house across the street. they told me that the g.p.s. led them to my house. my grass hadn t been mowed and they just assumed. alisyn: that s a rude awakening. al. mike: two more cases to talk about. a swat team this week busted in to the wrong woman s house. here is what she said. out of my peripheral
as federal money runs out. the cash strapped city is taking ownership and trying to fix the problems. casey stegall in new orleans tonight. what s going on. a new process where the city can basically foreclose on a blighted property if the deed holder does not pay their code enforcement violations. what happens next they are then auction dollars off at sheriff s sale where developers are redevelop. none of this happens, we are told, until every attempt is made to reach the original owner. some folks, 15 or 16 different addresses for where they could be. what we are starting to hear more and more of, is i m not coming back. so, do what you need to do to the property. goal is to unload 10,000 of these derelict properties before next year. today the number stands at 4700. shepard: what are new orleans residents saying about
and background you re the right person for the job? you think she s not electable? well, look, that s going to be proven. what i said last night was she s got to answer these troubling questions. it s not enough, she said, look, i m puzzled as to why the irs put a lien on me. you don t have an irs lien put on your taxes you failed to pay in 2005, five years later unless you haven t paid your taxes. she said it was a technical mistake by the bank why her house was the subject of a foreclosure lawsuit that she lost and her house was put up for sale at a sheriff s sale. and just before the sheriff s sale, she sold the house on which she owed $90,000. she sold it $135,000 to her boyfriend who was also her campaign adviser. people are going to want to know more about these. what did she do? why did she only have $5,800 in living expenses. why did she claim to be a graduate since the mid-90s when it turns out she just got her degree because she had unpaid