Isabella County Tenants Beware! Sheriff's Department Can & Will Evict You Without Due Process!

Again, "Thank You for coming!"

I have probably already written over 200 pages of content for this site but it needs to be refined. I have met some very special people that are helping me get my thoughts in order. They are also helping me cope with the mental overhead.

First, I would like to say that I didn’t ask for any of this. In fact, I gave the Isabella County Sheriff’s Department every single opportunity to try and make things right but instead of working with me they immediately started working against me and threatening me with arrest for this that and the other and that wasn't very smart. I can imagine that a great many citizens would have responded to threats of arrest just like they would have expected me to. The police had my wife so scared that she needed to get right out of this county and this state. I have never seen her so scared and upset. She wasn’t scared about going to jail, she was scared for us as a family and for our children and for how easy it could and would be for the Sheriff's Department to continue on being our Judge, Jury and Executioner and just take us out! I moved my wife and kids out of Michigan with things that would fit in the back of my truck and that was it. No furniture, no dishware, to television. Primarily we just took their clothing. For over two months they slept on the floor of their new apartment.

Second, I have always had a lot of respect for the law and for law enforcement. I recognize that there job is not an easy one and that they put their life on the line for us as part of their job. But trust me! As much as we would all like them to be, they are not all Heroes!

Third, I have not had a lot of experience as a tenant. In fact my wife and I have had our own rental properties over the years and have had both good and bad experiences with our own tenants and although we have never actually evicted any of our tenants, we have come close enough to check into the procedures.

What happened to us on September 27th, 2010 was so bizarre that we have had trouble conveying it to people. Here is a quote from a detective at the State Police Post in Mount Pleasant. “What you are telling me is so hard to believe, that I am not even going to try to believe you!”

Believe it or not, my family lost a house and a house full of furniture on September 27th, 2010 after law enforcement came to the scene at our request and told us that the landlord’s actions against us were cool and that we were trespassing on our own property and threatened us, my family, with arrest leaving us with only one option and that was to leave or be arrested. This was a seizure. Isabella County Sheriff's Department unlawfully seized our property. The deputy, and the might of his department, willfully and unlawfully interfered with our possessory interest in our home and in our property.

Here is what I think is a fitting analogy:
To us… To my family, it was like our house was on fire with our stuff in it. The Sheriff’s Deputy comes to our rescue but his fire truck is loaded with jet fuel rather than water but he sprays the house down anyways.

Although our house did not burn down, the result was the same. The deputy did not pour gas on the fire but his actions had the same exact result.

The deputy said and I quote, “A landlord can change the locks any time they want because they own the house.” To us… this was the jet fuel to the fire that burnt our house completely to the ground.

Unless the deputy’s statement here is correct in that: "A landlord can change the locks any time they want because they own the house."

There can be no justifyable explanation from the deputy, the department or their attorneys that would or could justify a police officer’s execution of a wrongful eviction and forcing four (4) tenants, lawful occupants, to leave their own property with no notice or warning or face being arrested.

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