Man seals self inside foreclosed residence

[marmar]

via MichaelMoore.com:



May 4th, 2010 12:25 PM

Man seals self inside foreclosed residence
Householder pleads for help from bank

By Jennifer Feehan / Toledo Blade


STONY RIDGE, Ohio - Through a golf ball-sized hole drilled into a front window, Keith Sadler has a message for banks foreclosing on people like him who fall behind on their mortgage payments.

He wants a little help, a little understanding, and a big demand: an end to foreclosures and evictions. In the meantime, the 53-year-old said he's not leaving the house that he owned for 12 years and lived in for 20.

"Even though on paper and legally it's no longer my house, I still consider this my home and I refuse to be kicked out by a greedy bank that is only interested in its bottom line," Mr. Sadler said in a phone interview.

Through an agreement with the Wood County Sheriff's Office, he was to have been out of the house on U.S. 20 in Stony Ridge by midnight yesterday, but instead, members of the Toledo Foreclosure Defense League, an organization he co-founded, helped seal him inside. A cell phone - and the hole in the front window - are his only means of communication.

"I hate touting the Obama plan, but it's a plan based on a percentage of income you make and the bank has to work out an interest rate that allows you to make payments," Mr. Sadler said. "I'm not looking for a free ride. I'm not looking for the bank to just let me have the house, but to work with me." ........(more)

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[drm604]

1. Why does he hate touting the Obama plan?

He seems to agree with the plan, so what's to hate?

Maybe he thinks the President is a Muslim with a scary middle name?

[gratuitous]

2. That's a damn good question

Sadler sounds like the kind of fellow who would drown before being rescued by the "wrong" lifeguard.

[Statistical]

3. He hates Obama. The idea that Obama plan might help him is very hard to swallow.

Kinda like a Klasnman who's live is saved by a blood transfusion from a black man.

[kelly1mm]

4. Twice I have had to take back a home I have sold, now, three

times. Was not a good situation for anyone involved. All three sales I have held the note personally and sold the property on a contract for deed so I did not have to go through the foreclosure process per se, rather just obtain an Order of Posession. Both times I gave the people time to leave over what the court did and money for moving expenses. Really sad what the economy is doing to working folks.

[XanaDUer]

5. Well, good luck to him

he does not want to "tout" the Obama plan?

:wtf:

[Kablooie]

6. "Man seals self inside foreclosed residence" sounds like allegory for the human race today.