PUYALLUP, Wash. - It's moving day at Eric and Ashley Bogue's Puyallup home. Not for them, but for the woman and her children found living here. The house is in foreclosure but it's still in the Bogues' name.
"I had them removed from the property," said Eric.
April Wood didn't exactly go quietly. She claimed she was renting the house through a property management company that had filed a declaration of abandonment.
We stopped by that property management office today. The man at the door claiming to be a business partner didn't want to talk to us.
We were looking for Peter DodsonDance, who as we found out, does a lot of property managing under a lot of different titles. There's United Plus Property Management, CW & Jones Property Management, Washington Pacific NW Trustee Service, Inc. and even a nonprofit, the DodsonDance Foundation, among others.
The Bogues aren't the only victims. Chris, whose parents' home is also in foreclosure, came here a few weeks ago to find someone changing the locks.
"He said it was all legit so I didn't worry about it but then my dad talked to bank and they're like we never ordered someone like that to go to your house," he said.
A letter from the homeowner's attorneys to Peter DodsonDance states: "Your claim of your declaration of abandonment and claim of title appears to be a fraud, a joke."
The Attorney General's office is now looking into the matter.
"If somebody goes onto property that is not theirs and they do not have the permission of the owner of the property, I call that trespass," said Dave Huey, Asst. Attorney General, Consumer Protection Division.
