A judge who ruled against a Mishawaka woman’s fight to hold on to her home sold for taxes also denied her attorney’s motion to reconsider the ruling late Friday — leaving the unemployed woman scrambling for options.
Cheryl Lane’s struggle to keep her East LaSalle Street home was the subject of a Tribune article in May, which described a series of events that resulted in her living elsewhere for a couple of years while she fought with her insurance company over repairing the home after a 2007 fire.
The 53-year-old woman moved back into the home in 2010, she says, after using her small fire insurance settlement to stave off foreclosure because she also had been laid off from her job.
But she insists she never knew her home was due to be sold at tax auction — and county records confirm the notices were sent to apartment addresses where she’d previously stayed, never to the LaSalle Street address.
No one has explained — even in court papers — how the address came to be changed with the auditor’s office.
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