Weird But True (Guy robbed of his entire HOUSE)

New York Post ^ | 8/4/03 | Bill Hoffman/Wire Services

[FeliciaCat]

August 4, 2003 -- Thieves not only stole items from B.J. Miller's house - they stole the whole home. Miller's prefabricated vacation home in Placerville, Calif., was deconstructed and carted off in trucks over several days. The crooks even grabbed his well pump, 600-pound generator and 2,600-gallon water tank.

[TOTAL RECALL]

Well doesn't that suck.

[FeliciaCat]

What I cant figure out is why his neighbors didnt suspect something....c'mon the guys HOUSE is being trucked away and no one thinks this is a little odd?

[GSWarrior]

Housejacking!

[stainlessbanner]

I bet it was a trailer; a few big boys who know what they are doing can unhook and haul away a trailer pretty fast.

[bigfootbob]

People are placid in Placerville.

[FeliciaCat]

It sounds like he owed someone money. Just my guess.

[narby]

Had a friend who had his house stolen without the thief having to move it.

He was desperate to get out from his mortgage, and answered an ad from a company offering to buy houses. The company had him sign papers without going through a title company that gave the title to the company, but didn't transfer the mortgage to them, or pay off the old mortgage.

The company paid the mortgage for a few months while renting the house to someone. When they stopped paying the mortage, the bank came after my friend.

He discovered that the house was legally the property of the company he "sold" it to. But he still was responsible for the mortgage. The company skipped town, and he can't find them to sue them. The cops aren't interested in prosecuting anything, or even helping find the perp.

At some time in the future, they will be able to sell the house to some unsuspecting person for pennies on the dollar, probably going through the same no-title-company routine to make sure the past problems are covered up.

[Shermy]

Divorce matter???

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

One cannot have a house situated here in remote AZ. A single house with no neighbors and no one home, is known as a target. It would not last a week, tops, without being burgularized, trashed, or burned down. Certain people are nothing less than lowlife SOB's.

[bigfootbob]

Probably a meth debt. Who else would have enough energy to steal a house in a weekend. Has to be a country song here somewhere.

[FeliciaCat]

probably.or drug/gambling debt.

[MJemison]

Foreclosure. Repo-Man.

[FeliciaCat]

Maybe, but then why is the article about a "stolen" house?

[MineralMan]

"They didn't just steal something. They stole his whole life," said neighbor Kent Wa"

Oh, poo! They stole his little vacation cabin. It's tiny. It's smaller than most travel trailers.

It's too bad it happened, but it's certainly not "his whole life." Sheesh.

[XBob]

I would check out the Philippino community. When at Clark AFB, it took us about a week to put up our new office (a butler building, about 40 feet by 80 feet), and didn't put a guard on it that night. We came to work the morning after completing it and found they had stolen the whole building over night, and all we had left was the concrete slab. (and this was on base - albeit a less central part of the base).

[spokeshave]

I bet this doesn't happen in Texas ...specially after the Repo man was shot trying to take a truck....imagine the force involved in preventing a house-jacking......

[Fudd]

About 20 years ago in my town, a housing contractor was reviewing thefts of materials from a new subdivision going in - more than usual. He determined that enough material had been stolen from the site to build a complete house. Not coincidentally, one of his subcontractors had recently purchased a nearby lot and had built a new house.

[Oberon]

bump for later reading.

[Consort]

Another house stolen in two days?