Hundreds of homes threatened with foreclosure for overdue trash bills
Republic Services of Southern Nevada has threatened almost 150 customers’ homes with foreclosure for overdue trash bills since the start of 2020, demanding both the owed money and the company’s attorney fees, court records show.
In most cases, the customers owed the waste disposal company less than $5,000 from overdue bills and associated late fees. But its attorney fees can cost thousands of dollars more, said Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada attorney Peter Aldous.
The company increased the annual number of foreclosure lawsuits it filed against homes between 2018 and 2019, and again in 2020, he said.
“I think it’s wildly disproportionate to take someone’s home for a very small amount of money,” said Aldous, part of the Legal Aid Center’s Consumer Rights Project. “During a pandemic when everyone is struggling, I would expect to see a decrease in the number of these cases, not an increase.”
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