A woman demands as much as $200,000 after a foreclosure company mistakenly emptied out her condo. KLAS reports.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/12/22/hernandez.condo.trashed.klas


Link to the Realtors who ordered the company to the wrong house.
http://www.brenkus.com/

I think this is a link to the actual property they meant to clean out.
http://www.mlsfinder.com/kwls/kw/index.cfm?action=listing_detail&property_id=0103966646&searchkey=b9fc32ac-9af7-65b2-bb48-00f1d60e0737&npp=8&sr=25


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12/23/2009 12:29:15 AM

dude that shit sucks!

12/23/2009 12:33:08 AM

oh wow.

$5000? really?

[Edited on December 23, 2009 at 12:36 AM. Reason : V ha. wow. ]

12/23/2009 12:34:12 AM

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"LAS VEGAS -- A Las Vegas woman's story of losing everything because of a foreclosure mix up is now being disputed. 8 News Now reported Nilly Mauck's story Monday. Mauck said a mix up in addresses caused a local realtor to think her condominium was a foreclosure and had all of her belongings removed. Now, an attorney for the realtor involved in the case is speaking out. The attorney and realty group believe the victim is trying to get more bang for her buck because of an obvious mistake by the realty group. However, there now appears to be even more confusion over a set of pictures of the apartment before it was cleared. SLIDESHOW: Pictures from inside the condo before the trash out "Over here I had my couch and my chair and my dining room table over here," said Mauck as she points where her furniture used to be located. She says Brenkus Team, a real estate group, is to blame because they wrongfully "trashed out" her home. The term is used when a home is cleared of everything inside due to a foreclosure. In this case, Mauck says it was her neighbor's condo that was in foreclosure, not hers. "There was no food, no clothes in the closet. It looked like the people had moved out so that's why they thought they had the right place," said Albert Marquis who represents the Brenkus Team. "I don't think anything excuses the fact that there was a mistake and that damage should be paid for," Marquis said. What must be determined now is how much is the mistake worth? "My clients made a potential offer, I think, of $5,000, but she came back and is asking for $200,000 and that's not going to happen," he said. But before even that can be settled, there is another area of dispute involving the contents in the condominium. "This is Mrs. Mauck's condo before they cleaned these things out," said Marquis, who sent out a series of photos by way of a public relations firm to 8 News Now. He claims the pictures are of Mauck's home and they show it is vacant with the exception of a few items scattered about. They are much different that the pictures that Mauck has which show a furnished home. "You've got that there and you've got more pictures there. How do you explain these? I was told that these were all immediately before they're might be a few that are immediately after okay. But these are these, pictures of place that somebody already moved out," Marquis said. 8 News Now examined the photos and noticed that the layout of the kitchens was different in each photo. Also, one photo in the series shows a different condo number. 8 News Now asked Marquis about the differences in the photos and he didn't have an answer. He believes the victim is looking for a hefty payout. "It's like someone being in an auto accident and then faking their injuries in order to increase their damages," Mauck said. Mauck says she only wants her possessions back or to be compensated. "If they really took it to the dump, I don't think I will ever get any of those back. I don't even want to come back to this place anymore," she said. The attorney told 8 News Now he is planning to look into the discrepancies of the photos."

12/23/2009 12:34:40 AM

man... that is so fucked up they should just give her the 200,000

12/23/2009 12:40:18 AM

There is no way those people just throw all that shit away. If so, I want a job working there so I can keep all the good shit and sell it on CL and or eBay.

12/23/2009 12:47:39 AM

I think for being assholes about the mix-up they should award her more than she is seeking. They fucking threw away her whole life. There's shit there that you'll never get back, ever.

12/23/2009 12:50:10 AM

^yea really... 200K seems low for a screwup of this magnitude. If she was paid up in full they owe her at least 200K.

However... something about this is telling me this is not the case.

12/23/2009 12:53:54 AM

The realty companys lawyer tried to bring in photos of the condo saying it was pretty much empty, the news channel compared them and found the floorplan of the photos he brought was the reverse of her unit..............................................FAIL.

12/23/2009 12:55:32 AM

http://www.lasvegasnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=11716410

12/23/2009 12:55:55 AM

This is a case where you should definitely get more than just the value or the belongings. She is gonna have to take the time to buy all the new stuff not to mention the time and distress of having to deal with all this. I think 200k is probably low balling it if it were me at least. I mean thats how much I would expect and I really dont have shit haha

12/23/2009 10:25:55 AM

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"man... that is so fucked up they should just give her the 200,000"

lol, you must be kidding. There's no way that woman had more than $50,000 worth of shit. Tack on another $50k for her inconvenience and that's the end of it. $200,000 is way too much.

This wasn't a house, this is a condo. Not as big, not as much stuff.

12/23/2009 10:31:26 AM

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"$5000? really?"

i fucking got more than that in my accident!!!!!


this is bullshit

12/23/2009 10:31:28 AM

^^ its called punitive damages in court.

12/23/2009 12:03:46 PM

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"lol, you must be kidding. There's no way that woman had more than $50,000 worth of shit. Tack on another $50k for her inconvenience and that's the end of it. $200,000 is way too much. This wasn't a house, this is a condo. Not as big, not as much stuff."

no way...$200,000 is by far a MINIMUM for something of this magnitude. She should sue for a hell of a lot more than that.

12/23/2009 12:20:00 PM

200k is pretty low. Sure her stuff was probably worth less. But what about pictures, mementos, hand me downs, etc. Oh, that quilt your now deceased grandmother made for you? We tossed it in the dump. Your wedding dress is there as well... etc.

Hell, where is the DA in this? They should be arrested for breaking and entering, and burglary.

12/23/2009 12:27:34 PM

did you guys actually read the article? her place was practically abandoned to begin with.

besides, her last name is hernandez. she's probably illegal and her furniture is plastic lawn chairs

shit, why did they put hernandez in the url?

[Edited on December 23, 2009 at 12:50 PM. Reason : oops lol]

12/23/2009 12:47:17 PM

^ they're saying that the pictures of the place being abandoned don't match the layout of the actual apartment.

ie. the pictures they're producing saying that the place was empty are possibly fake

12/23/2009 12:49:29 PM

My previous statement is based on her getting her stuff back.


If all her stuff and momentos collected throughout her life was literally trashed and thrown away and unrecoverable then I can imagine more money being given.

12/23/2009 12:51:23 PM

nm

[Edited on December 23, 2009 at 12:53 PM. Reason : a]

12/23/2009 12:53:32 PM

gotcha. i mixed up the last names and thought the mauck photos had the wrong condo number.

maybe i should just go back to bed and start over

12/23/2009 12:53:57 PM

^ haha sounds like a really good idea

12/23/2009 12:55:23 PM

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"did you guys actually read the article? her place was practically abandoned to begin with."

Did YOU read the article? I think not.

[Edited on December 23, 2009 at 1:09 PM. Reason : a]

12/23/2009 1:08:03 PM

i thought the pictures of her "fully furnished" place were the ones showing that it was abandoned. all i see is some shit sparsely piled on the floor.

12/23/2009 2:59:47 PM

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"They fucking threw away her whole life."

just stuff

12/23/2009 3:02:29 PM

who wants to start a "trash out" company with me? seems to be some money made there

12/23/2009 3:04:12 PM

Like Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern in Home Alone?

Because "The Wet Bandits" is already taken.

12/23/2009 3:22:13 PM

Just turn the heat way up and call yourselves "The Dry Bandits"

[Edited on December 23, 2009 at 3:23 PM. Reason : *]

12/23/2009 3:23:10 PM

but that sounds more like "The Hot Bandits"

12/23/2009 3:25:21 PM

Dehumidifiers?

I know, just leave desiccants all over the house.

[Edited on December 23, 2009 at 3:30 PM. Reason : *]

12/23/2009 3:26:46 PM

no Fight Club references yet.......


the stuff you own ends up owning you. you are not your FUCKING KHAKIS

12/23/2009 3:40:39 PM

Do they show that on TCM yet?

12/23/2009 3:41:19 PM

I'd be more concerned with the photographs, old school crafts, trinkets, child's special item (blankie/teddy), and other things of sentimental value than the overall item cost of all the possessions.

12/23/2009 4:13:08 PM

Look at this photograph, every time I do it makes me laugh.

12/23/2009 4:14:39 PM

could you imagine coming home and your house is COMPLETELY cleaned out.

no pictures
no computer
no furniture

nothing

12/23/2009 4:25:04 PM

12/23/2009 4:25:20 PM

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"Attorney Michael Joe is a foreclosure specialist with the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada. He says a mishap similar to this happened six years ago[ when Countrywide emptied a condo belonging to Gerald and Katrina Thitchener in a mistaken foreclosure. "A number of people were sued. Countrywide ended up paying over $1 million in damages in that case," he said."

12/23/2009 11:28:52 PM

oops, my bad.

12/23/2009 11:51:23 PM

I'd sue for at least a million

12/24/2009 2:00:59 AM