InvestingGPS leads US bank foreclosure team to wrong Ohio house - or why you should always mow your front lawnGPS leads US bank foreclosure team to wrong Ohio house - or why you should always mow your front lawn
A US bank says a bad GPS navigator was the reason it repossessed the wrong house.
Its homeowner Katie Barnett was away for a fortnight from her McArthur, Ohio, home which was wrongly repossessed.
She returned to the house, and climbed through the window, with the locks changed and many of their belongings taken in the foreclosure cleanout.
Ms Barnett is now battling the First National Bank of Wellston to give her $US18,000 ($19,400) for the lost items, but the bank wants her to show receipts for everything that's missing.
The bank says the house it meant to clean out was on the same street, just opposite.
Foreclosure properties in the neighbourhood include the $US29,900 three bedroom ranch on 2,4 hectares at 62529 Dunkle Creek Rd, Creola, OH.
Katie Barnett says she's even not a borrower with the First National Bank in Wellston who foreclosed on her house.
“They repossessed my house on accident, thinking it was the house across the street,” Barnett said.
“They told me that the GPS led them to my house,” Barnett said. “My grass hadn’t been mowed and they just assumed,” she told her local television station, 10TV.
MSN Money says the same thing happened to Nilly Mauck of Las Vegas in 2010 and twice in 2012 to a retired California couple.
