I call BS. I am a lawyer in Joisey. While I don’t do collections, I am 99.9% sure parties have to file an Affidavit of Non-Military Service before defaulting someone.
Did you read the story? The HOA lawyers did say that neither party was active duty.
The house was owned by the couple free and clear no mortgage.
The wife was severly depressed.
Mail to Iraq stinks.
There is an 8 hour time difference, they are ahead so phone calls are hard.
While they have internet access, it is sporatic and the sand storms sometimes knock it out for days. Plus, in the military jobs are not 9-5. Sometimes you hear from then for a few days in a row, sometimes you don’t hear anything for weeks.
If he decent neighbors, someone should have tried to either contact his wife or him. It is truly disgusting that they live in a neighborhood where a woman whose husband is deployed and she has 2 kids and nobody in the entire so called neighborhood obviously never even bothered to see if she was ok or needed help.
You are correct. They did file - they falsified same and said that neither party was on active duty. That tiny tidbit is in one of the last paragraphs of the story.