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Julie R. says

At least Erie County has ONE good thing going for it now. I'll bet with Mr. Jeffries as the auditor there won't be any more fraudulent transfers of property like the ENTITLED attorneys got away with back when Jude Hammond was the auditor and Trish Fraley was the recorder. 

Sam says

Julie R you are to dumb to understand it's SARACASM, dah, and you will always remain DISINHERITED......

Julie R. says

@ Sammy:  Where are you coming up with all these rants from, anyway --- like that rant on another story about a duplex? Ah, how could a 3 bedroom, one-bath home in Huron be converted into a duplex? Geez!  I'll bet the neigbors sure wouldn't like that! John Zimmerman would be getting lots of phone calls for sure!

Sam says

Julie R admits to knowing the reason she has no friends when she self-describes herself  " Doesn't just stink ~ it absolutely and positively REEKS!"   

This article about unkempt property does not apply to Julie R, she doesn't own any property because she was DISINHERITED.......

Julie R. says

Some of the trolls like Sam with that DISINHERITED crap and Woody with that highly intelligent beep, beep, beep don't get to me at all  --- but I sure do get to them!

That said, something DOES stink with the Democratic party in Erie County ---- but then we all know something stinks in Erie County, PERIOD.  Doesn't just stink ~ it absolutely and positively REEKS!

Centauri says

Something must really stink about the Democrat party in Erie County.

Centauri says

It says that the Medina County prosecutor is investigating the circumstances that led to Ms. Ferrell's firing. Duh.... why would they ask Baxter's favorite special prosecutor's office to do that?

Interesting comment

Do not let the trolls get to you Julie

I follow all of your comments

Odd but was there an investigation when Paul fired the other woman?

Julie R. says

It says that the Medina County prosecutor is investigating the circumstances that led to Ms. Ferrell's firing. Duh.... why would they ask Baxter's favorite special prosecutor's office to do that?  I'll bet that was never done when Tom Paul fired that other woman. It also says there wasn't a single performance review in Ferrell's file and Mr. Jeffries said he has no idea if Paul or the former auditor Jude Hammond ever conducted a review. Geez! Over 17 years and never even had a review?  

I'll bet Mr. Jeffries is going to discover a lot of shady things in that Auditor's office dating back YEARS.

Santown123 says

I enjoy reading everyone’s comments and we can agree that this story is pathetic. There are FAR worse houses/properties in Sandusky than then one pictured. It amazes me how lazy people are these days and how quick they are to call out other individuals/families. If this house was such an inconvenience and burden, take an hour out of your day and fix the problem. Pay a couple of kids $10 each and have them do it, contact the former residents etc etc.  Nope, instead you run to the paper hoping to cause some sort of news craze about a foreclosed house when there are a hundred other ways to handle this situation instead of taking the "easy way" out. Well your "easy way" out worked and I hope the neighbors are satisfied with how immaturely they handles this situation. The city and paper should be ashamed.

Julie R. says

Right after an invalid sheriff sale of inherited property in May 2007 ~ held over my objections and without my consent ~ I was informed by the Court and a Cleveland attorney that the property had been sold. Yet three or four months later I received a call from the city of Huron that the neighbors were complaining that the grass wasn't being cut. I informed the city that the property had been sold and even gave them the name of the Erie County realtor that had bought the property. I then found out that the Court and the Sheriff's Department still had not transferred the Sheriff Sale deed over to the realtor ~ obviously giving him time to set the property up in an LLC.  While I was finding out this information the city of Huron cut the grass and charged $200.00.

One thing about these joke courts --- they sure do cost people money with the games they play.

Julie R. says

Sammy:  Considering all the foreclosures and sheriff sales in Erie County, can you think of any reason as to why Judge Roger Binette and Judge Beverly McGookey would want a home in Huron to be sold at an invalid sheriff sale (see Data For Parcel 42-01072.000) not through foreclosure but through a scam partition action and a fraud preliminary judicial report filed by a Cleveland attorney named Jack Turoff instead of following the LAW and having the fraud on the 1st owner's half acknowledged so the property could be put back into the correct owner's probate estate and sold with a clear title? 

Joker says

Furthermore, there are way worse properties in Sandusky.  There are industrial sites that have needed to be cleaned up for years that the current owners, former owners and/or city have not taken care of .  There are hoards of dilapidated houses that should be torn to the ground that still sit where they are, inviting wild animals, squatters and drug dealers.  There are alos houses that are occupied by people who are paying their rent and their mortgages and allow their children to live in squallor while they're out scoring crack, meth and smack.  Where are those stories at?

Joker says

One of the first things they teach you in journalism is that there are three sides to every story.  The Register has only presented the side of disgruntled neighbors who were too lazy to clean up a slight eyesore that they cannot swear in court was caused by the former owners of the property.  The Register made a half-hearted attempt to contact the former owners but that obviously wasn't successful.  If the stench was so horrid, why were a group of people able to clean it up today in the sweltering heat that surely made the scent worse?  I doubt the nagging neighbors even made an attempt to clean it up, and only said they did to make themselves look better.

Also consider that you have no idea why the property was abandoned.  Isn't it possible that the woman who owned this home has had a serious string of problems that prevented her from avoiding foreclosure?  The Register has run numerous stories just to that point.  I've read stories in this newspaper about people who lost their jobs, or had the interest rates of their mortgages increased without warning etc... and the Register portrays thos persons as victims of the system yet in this story the Register made little attempt to see what the other side was.  No one wants to walk away from their house, no one wants the legal and financial nightmares of facing foreclosure so what makes the Register think that it is okay to call these people out by name in their story without giving them a voice?  That's pretty yellow (journalism).

Centauri says

The story about the firing was in Friday's paper. According to the article Mrs Ferrell had worked for the auditors office for 17 years., way before her husband was VOTED into office.

Would this be a true statement if Tom Ferrell was first elected as a county commissioner in 1988? 

Julie R. says

There's LOTS of people in corrupt Erie County that are ENTITLED. Could be why Sessler doesn't put all fraud documents online. Erie County doesn't want anybody to know who the ENTITLED ones are! Doesn't want anybody to know who the ENTITLED attorneys and law firms are, either. There's a lot of financial institutions in Erie County that are ENTITLED, too. More so then anybody thinks.

Julie R. says

I thought Ms. Ferrell started working for the Auditor's office right after Tom Paul was elected. That wasn't 17 years ago, was it?  Didn't Paul fire a long-time employee for no reason and give Ferrell the job with a substantial raise? Didn't the fired employee file a lawsuit that was settled out of court?     

eightballcuet1 says

Taxpayer, maybe you should subscribe to the print edition or pay for the e-paper. The story about the firing was in Friday's paper. According to the article Mrs Ferrell had worked for the auditors office for 17 years., way before her husband was VOTED into office. But what the heck does that have to do with this story anyway?

Darkhorse says

The seventeen years that the fired employee had been a county employee, there is no evidence of a performance review and none can be found in her file?  Did the other employees in that same department have any performance reviews or is she the only one that didn't get one?   The job was eliminated and Jefferies can do that under reorganization. 

Exxcellent says

I can't speak for Taxpayer, but I assume he meant the Ferrell(sp?) brothers. Tom & Jim ( not sure of names) one is commissioner and one is twp. trustee.

Julie R. says

Exxcellent says

I read that article in Friday's print edition. Jefferies did fire Ms. Ferrell. He said: because he could.

Centauri says

Hey Sandusky Register, where is that story abour our newly elected county auditor firing a county commissioners wife working in the auditors office?

Those two brothers who think they OWN and are ENTITLED as rulers of Erie County will be coming after YOU.

Taxpayer provided a couple of interesting comments. Perhaps Taxpayer heard it from the grapevine?

Itsntallaboutu says

@TAXPAYER~DOES ANYONE REALLY CARE ABOUT WHAT YOU THINK?    NOPE!    HA! HA! HA!    ESPECIALLY ME!

Erie County Resident says

Whoever foreclosed on the property is supposed to be the owner.

The cities building inspector or Health Department could hire contractors to clean it up and bill the owner of the property.

If they don't pay up then seize the property and resell to a new owner that is not a landlord to reoccupy.

Solves both problems then, cleaned up and a no longer vacant house that a slumlord doesn't own.

Taxpayer says

Julie R. says

@ Darkhouse:  That's not true. You can still get insurance ~ at State Farm, anyway ~ but after a year the insurance triples. I know that to be true because a nice home in Huron ~ with serious defects in the title caused by fraud  ~  sat empty for over two years after the death of the 2nd owner while the courts and the dirty attorneys tried to figure out an illegal way to get the property sold without following the LAW and having the fraud on the 1st owner's half acknowledged so the property could be put back into her probate estate and sold with a clear title.

Itsntallaboutu says

Huh?   I have neighbors and their property  looks like that~and they live there.    Nothing ever said~makes my property a mess~brings down my property value~do they care?  Nope.    Does anyone care but me?  Nope.   Just wait till they fall down I guess.

margaritaville88 says

Darkhorse says

I was told by my insurance agent that after a house has set empty for a year, you can't get insurance on it.  How do the banks get insurance on their foreclosed properties?

Bess says

Then fine the estate.

Julie R. says

How does anybody know that these homes are even foreclosed on?  They could be part of an estate and can't be sold through normal channels because of defects in the title stemming from FRAUD that Erie County public officials allowed attorneys to pull off prior to the death of the owner or one of the owners. After all, title searches are done at closing and no title company around is going to give out title insurance on properties that were involved in fraud ~ which means no bank around is going to give out a Loan on property when a title company refuses to insure the title. For all anybody knows these properties could be sitting empty because the corrupt courts are trying to figure out an illegal way to get them sold without following the LAW.

* Before property that's part of an estate can be sold if the administrator of the estate is aware of any fraud committed on the property then the administrator and/or her/his attorneys are to commence an action in the common pleas of the county in which the property is situated to have the fraud acknowledged.   

007 says

Bess hit the nail on the head, if someone could WAKE UP ICEMAN, (law director) the city can in fact cut the grass and put a lean on the property since the lending institution owns the property now. Rest assured the city charges very heavy for this service and it wouldn't take but a couple times for the city to clean the property before the bank would make arrangements. As far as Hamilton and his grass cutting , it was rather obvious as to why he continued cutting even after he was told to stop my police. It was a ploy for recognition from the voters and sadly it worked, I mean look at all the free PR he received in the paper. Yet we are still stuck with a wanna be commissioner that sits at the table like a bump on a log with nothing productive to move towards a better city. Another bobble head at it's finest!!!

SarahTonin says

Joker .. your solution is a good one. I wish people would be more proactive than they are but it has been learned, over time, that taking matters into your own hands sometimes has a downside. Take the case of John Hamilton, now Commissioner Hamilton, who was arrested for mowing grass in Central Park, that was over a foot deep. He was later elected to the City Commission but I wonder what it cost him $$$$.

Bess says

Incredible.  These vacant properties are owned by someone even if they are forclosed properties.  If they are forclosed then banks or other investment firms own them and are responsible for their upkeep.  Why is it then they are not charged with upkeep all property records are public information?  It's just not that difficult and there are plenty out of work to do the clean up.  If the owner of record does not move to clean up fine them, and fine them so it hurts their bottom line.  How can we have a "beautiful Sandusky" with this blight? 

Joker says

They were repulsed by the smell?  If you're serious about cleaning it up, but some menthalated vasoline under your nostrils and go clean it up.  The city is in financial straits and people complain about overgrown lawns instead of mowing them.  If this yard is so big of an eyesore that you're complaining in the paper then maybe you should suck it up and get that stuff thrown out.  Don't let a little smell repulse you.  Haven't you ever changed an 18-month old's diaper?  Surely there is no worse smell.