Foreclosure crisis hits home for Ann Arbor area residents
Any day now, an eviction notice will be posted on the front door of Martha Behnke’s Pittsfield Township home.
“It’s very scary,” she said. “I don’t know what to do next. I’m like a top that’s spinning, and when I stop, God only knows where I’ll be.”
Last winter, after she and her husband, Bill, were unable to pay their mortgage for four consecutive months, and a notice of foreclosure was placed in a newspaper for four successive weeks, their house was sold at a sheriff’s sale to a Texas bank for $218,400.
Though they were given 12 months to redeem their property, there was no way to come up with the $330,000 they owe two mortgage companies.