That happened to my husband and I in one of the homes that we had rented in the early years of our marriage. We had been living in the home for 2 months shy of a year when one morning we found a note from the sheriff on our door stating that the home would be auctioned off in less than a month. We owned multiple pets and in our town it was nearly impossible to find a rental that would allow multiple pets and was in our budget. That scared us because these dogs had been in my husband's family since he was 15 and we would not be able to find new homes for them easily due to their age.

I called the number on the note that was on our door and was told that we needed to be out by the date on the note (we were not given any options to rent from the lender) but that if we were not that we would be evicted and that would buy us a little bit of time. He felt sorry for us because of the fact that we were tenants and had no idea that this was coming (our landlord has just told us that he wanted us to extend our lease).

Since the auction was being handled by the Sheriff we had no way of contacting the lender - we did not even know who our landlord's lender was. It was going to be auctioned off by the Sheriff and that was that.

We were very blessed and found a new home almost right away - it was above our budget but one of my husband's friends from work rented a room from us so it worked out and we got to keep our dogs. If we had not found a pet-friendly landlord at that time, though, who knows where we would have gone and what would have happened to our pets.

Listen to AlexShay - from our experience he is offering good advice.

Sad story but it would have taken far longer to get them out had they simply stayed and stopped paying rent to save for a new downpayment until the REO agent showed up at the door with a cash for keys offer. Far too many people do not know their rights.

Yeah...

It is also the way of the REO lenders I work with here on f/c properties regardless of SFD or MF status in any configuration.

I have one in PreFC that at best reminds me of a mix between *driving miss daisy and fried green tomatoes*

I admit liking these two chick flicks but here, miss daisy doesn't have a car and her toto is really big!

counting the days...