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Dear Sheriff Arpaio - stop evicting Phoenix AZ tenants

By
Real Estate Agent with wexzilla.com

I want this Phoenix AZ real estate blog article to serve as an open letter to our Maricopa County (Phoenix AZ) Sheriff Joe Arpaio to do the same for those renters who have paid on-time to the landlords who pocketed the monthly rent money and did not forward to the banks / lenders.

Please consider allowing these tenants to stay in the home with an rents going to the lenders for a statutory period of time. A minimum of 30 days from the foreclosure sale to allow the tenants to find a new home to live, pack and move.

I am not suggesting that he allow those who have defaulted on a loan stay longer. However, those who have followed the law need some protection in these uncharted financial and economic times.

I am suggesting legislation to protect those many people who were harmed as a result of the mortgage crisis.

Yes, it is a sheriff’s job to carry out the law, not make the law. Though, it is also a Sheriff’s job to protect innocent people. This is not martial law. This is moral law intervening in a crisis.

Like any good American who sees people in some immediate harm , Chicago Sheriff , Mr. Dart moved swiftly to do what is morally and ethically expected to those who are in imminent danger. I commend him and he may likely get my write-in ballot for President.

I encourage Phoenix AZ sheriff Joe Arpaio to do the same and expect many write-in ballots as well.

 

Call your local Phoenix AZ Congressman and let your voice be heard.

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Copyright © James Wexler *Stop Foreclosure Evictions in Phoenix AZ*

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Bill Gassett
RE/MAX Executive Realty - Hopkinton, MA
Metrowest Massachusetts Real Estate

I guess the laws are different out in Arizona. Here in Mass the law heavily favors the renter. It could take 6 months to get someone out even if they have no business being there.

Jan 29, 2009 02:25 AM
Debbie Malone
Londeree's Real Estate & Property Management - Lynchburg, VA
From Lynchburg To The Lake (434) 546-0369

James, I've read in other parts of the country of the sheriff refusing to put people out. It's just compounding a problem that is already a crisis. I would think someone in Washington could come up with a solution.

Jan 29, 2009 02:32 AM
Anonymous
Aaron Smith, REALTOR DC & MD

Thanks, James,

This empathy is a postivie moral stand, and should be implemented nationwide.

Thanks for being a good example for all REALTORS out there. I hope that the sheriff and people of Arizona respond in kind!

Cordially,

Aaron Smith

Jan 29, 2009 02:05 PM
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Don Rogers
Keller Williams Realty Chesterfield - O'Fallon, MO
Realtor, Broker, CDPE, GRI, OnullFallon MO & St Charles County MO homes

James,

As much as I agree with you on this topic I do not believe that the sheriff has a choice if he is following the dictate of the court.  To be honest I would not want his job in this instance, they should be throwing the landlord in UNDER the jail and forgetting where they put the key!!!!

Jan 30, 2009 12:06 AM