"Safeguard has acknowledged the error and has been working with the homeowner to resolve it," a spokeswoman for SafeGuard said in a statement. "It's not like this company was coming to deliver flowers, they were coming to take over this property." "When you're coming to take over someone's house, you should make sure you're in the right place," Sobol said. The company is accused of hiring unscrupulous sub-contractors to do its dirty work. In fact, according to The Huffington Post, homeowners in 31 states, and the Attorney General of Illinois, have sued the company for unlawful break-ins. Sobol calls this foreclosure foul up "legalized burglary," and it turns out Safeguard has been accused of making the same mistake before. "It should have been evident to that company that this was not an abandoned property," said Attorney Scott Sobol. The actual unit the bank was looking for is about six buildings down from where Mel and Harriet live, and once they realized the mistake they put a lock box on the correct unit as well. The couple's unit number in the Karanda Village complex isn't even close to the one workers were supposed to take over. The company, SafeGuard Properties, of Valley View, Ohio, is one of the biggest players in the foreclosure game, hired by most big banks to take back homes in default.īut it's still unclear how this happened.
"They said, 'Miss, you're not on our list.' I said, 'Obviously I'm not on your list, you shouldn't have been in my house,'" Harriet said.
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