Bob Tankel wants you to know that he’s not Snidely Whiplash.
As an attorney for more than 500 homeowners associations, Tankel is foreclosing on people’s homes for unpaid association dues with surprising frequency. Although some are investors, others live in the homes and lose them because of a few hundred dollars in back dues, he says.
That makes Tankel an unsympathetic figure. He jokingly says people sometimes compare him to Snidely Whiplash, the top-hatted villain with the handlebar mustache in the old Dudley Do-Right cartoons.
But Tankel insists he’s not a bad guy and doesn’t want to take people’s homes away from them.