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Law Practice

May 15, 2009

BERG: Renters Sideswiped in the Housing Crisis Need Immediate Attention

In the third of a four-part series on America's mortgage meltdown, columnist Martin Berg finds that it's renters beware.

For renters in California, foreclosures have been particularly baffling and vexing.

Even in places where renters are supposed to be protected from eviction, they often end up getting kicked out of places where they have been paying rent for years. Some financial institutions have used legally required notices of foreclosure sale as attempts to improperly evict tenants.

And when they do stay in bank-owned properties, tenants complain that the banks often don't ma...

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