Genesee Sun

More Headaches After Livingston County Foreclosure Auction

LIVINGSTON COUNTY — The county is in more legal hot water over this years foreclosure  auctioning  after one of the properties sold included a mobile home that belonged to a bank.

The property at 5274 Wheelock Road in Leicester was advertised by the county with a photograph of a double wide modular home that sits on 1.6 acres in the Town of Leicester. The poperty was purchased at the auction by the Carney family for $50,000 with an assessed value of $92,500.

The bank holding the lien on the mobile home has served the new owner with an eviction notice for the past due amount on the mobile home. The Carney family believed they purchased the home with the land at the auction and has already invested money in repairing the the property. The Carney family has retained Cannon and Van Allen LLC for legal counsel.

"It appears that Livingston County has been unjustly enriched at the foreclosure sale," said Kevin Van Allen.  "We are currently looking at all of our options."

Van Allen stated that obviously the purchase price of the property of the auction would have changed if the bidders had known the home was not included.

According to court records the county lawyer failed to appear in Superior Court regarding the matter.

Livingston County officials stated at this time they did not have all of the information in the matter and had no comment.