And to answer the question why didn’t anyone help her? To my knowledge no one knew about this legal mess. She merely asked people about property for rent. There was no urgency until it was too late. And someone mentioned she did not know where the horses were taken. That is not true. She was told where the horses were and was told she could get them …she would merely have to pay for their board. You can go on her Facebook page where she posted a video where she goes on the property and screams and threatens the man who was caring for them. She let months go by and did not pay their board…see the pattern of not being responsible?
When they come to court, us vacuumers take the time to explain every step. There is also an attorney or more in every courthouse who has the job of talking to litigants about procedure.
I used to process foreclosure holdovers all the time. The tenants are noticed and once the bank owns the property they go to LT court and begin a Holdover proceeding.
On the first date they would rarely show so another hearing date is set and small yellow postcards are mailed by the vacuumer for each individual names as to the next date and failre to appear leads to eviction. I could send a dozen postcards out addressed to John Doe, Jane Doe, John Doe 2, Jane Doe 2 etc etc
Thank you for the update. I also found the rescue easily enough on Google with a few key words.
As far as the eviction, to me it changes everything legally if the person was the girlfriend of the property owner who was foreclosed on.
It’s one thing to buy a property with an established tenant and have the contract handed over. It’s another thing to buy a foreclosed property and find a family member of the former owner still ensconced with a large herd of skinny horses. I wonder if boyfriend had moved out or if he was still there too?
I doubt in this case the herd owner had a lease contract or was paying rent.
Those photos show ample cause to seize horses for humane reasons. Usually such horses would go straight to a rescue, not to an auction, but perhaps there was some debt owing clause being activated whereby they needed to be sold at public auction (like for a stable man’s lien).
I expected there was another side to things, but didn’t expect it to be so ugly as original information said there was no welfare reason to seize the horses.
I have seen pictures, with dates, of these horses on the property. There isn’t a single horse that looks like this. Bear in mind that the horses were removed from the property, and the owner’s care, 8.26.22. They were sold at auction on 10.15.22. There is no way to determine what the level of care was during that period of time. No welfare action was ever filed against the owner, to the best of my knowledge.
The horse I got was the subject of an abuse reporting. He and a gray horse found as skinners. The neglecting owner made a deal to avoid prosecution by getting rid of the horses so he sent them to the auction.