Unwitting Tenant Rents Foreclosed Home, Then Gets Evicted Days After Moving In; Full Rent Refund Obtained After Local Media Reporter Intervenes

In West Palm Beach, Florida, WPBF-TV Channel 25 reports:

• It's not what Marie Jean-Pierre envisioned for the week she took off work. She planned to be moving in, not moving out, too. Jean-Pierre rented a four-bedroom home in the gated Terracina community from a woman named Micki O'Callaghan. Jean-Pierre knew it was in the beginning stage of foreclosure. But she said O'Callaghan promised it would all be OK and that maybe the Jean-Pierre family could even buy the home. [...] She said the notice went up on the front door the day after she moved in.

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• [WPBF-TV Channel 25 reporter Cathleen] O'Toole tried to ask O'Callaghan about Jean-Pierre's $800 in rent Thursday. Instead, O'Callaghan shut the door on her. [...] The pre-school teacher did get her rent back and a lesson she never wanted. "Don't just go anywhere, saying you got the place, here take it, like that, because I learned a big lesson from this. Believe me," said Jean-Pierre.

For the story, see Renter Forced Out Same Week She Moved In (Eviction Notice Plastered On Door Day After Woman Moved In).

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