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Bank Sells Woman's Home By Mistake

Woman Evicted From House

POSTED: Monday, August 17, 2009
UPDATED: 3:50 am EDT August 18,2009

A bizarre series of mix-ups landed a South Florida woman out of her home and her furniture in the street when her home was sold without her even knowing.

Anna Ramirez is settling back into her house after she said she was thrown out for no reason.

On Wednesday night, Ramirez was evicted by a man who bought her house. The problem is, her house wasn't for sale. The bank, Washington Mutual, auctioned the house off by mistake while Ramirez was in the process of modifying her loan, Local 10's Roger Lohse reported.

"This is the deal that the bank already sent me, and I already sent my first payment, and I'm getting kicked out of my home. That's not right," Ramirez said that night.

In a matter of hours, all of the things she accumulated during her three years in this house were on the front lawn.

Long before the movers showed up, the bank acknowledged the mix-up and even went to court with Ramirez to get the sale reversed. But then the Miami-Dade County Clerk of Court's Office never filed the judge's order.

"This shouldn't be happening, you know, because we did the right thing," Ramirez said. "We went step by step."

The morning after she was thrown out of her own house, Ramirez went back to the judge.

"I have to make sure that you get back in the house because I did reverse the sale but the information the owners received was that the sale wasn't totally reversed," Judge Israel Reyes said. "So it's not totally their fault."

Local 10's calls to Washington Mutual and the bank's attorney were not returned.

As long as she has a mortgage, Ramirez said she wonders if she can really call the house a home.

"I hope nobody has to go through this like I did," Ramirez said.

Ramirez said she is trying to find an attorney who might take her case because many of her belongings were damaged when the movers took them out of her house.

The clerk of court's office said it handles thousands of cases and this was caused by a human error. The clerk of courts said he planned to call Ramirez to apologize.
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