Squatter Comes At Nashville TV News Crew With Axe

all right you want to live in a beautiful home but how about this no rent no mortgage well no problem that seems to be the case for a Mount Juliet man living in a half million dollar home without paying a dime so how can someone get away with being a squatter newsChannel 5 investigative reporter Ben Hall went to find out we want to talk about why you're in this house we don't don't touch the camera Jew pissed II didn't want to talk about why he's been squatting in this mount Julie at home for more than two years the bank your bank says you don't have a right to know what I got say when did you move in don't matter none of your business our investigation found that Piske moved into the home more than two years ago despite having no legal claim to the property the banks that had foreclosed on the previous owners essentially forgot about it allowing it to sit empty for years this video home tour shows what the luxury log cabin used to look like attempts to sell it fell apart because of confusion among banks after the housing crisis it said empty for a while before we tried to buy Ron and Dena Woodard fell in love with the home back in 2014 and tried to buy it at auction I knew where all of my furniture was gonna be I mean it was just I just you know it was ours you know we were and the kids the kids were just as excited about it as we were and their high bid was accepted but days before they were set to close the bank pulled the plug on the deal there was no real explanation of the listing sorry yeah in late 2012 JPMorgan Chase foreclosed on the home then sold it to Bank of New York Mellon as trustees for investors for a mortgage-backed security control over the home is since passed from Countrywide Financial to Bank of America and finally donación star meanwhile it is sad empty we couldn't get in touch with anybody that would claim any responsibility for the maintenance or ownership or anything else that point City Commissioner Ray Justice contacted more than one bank about the abandoned home they didn't seem to care I got no response zero response it was about that time Jude Piske his friends and family suddenly appeared at the house this is probably one of the most bizarre things I've ever dealt with police were first called to the home in April of 2015 for a domestic dispute involving Piske and his ex-wife in September police discovered a stolen vehicle at the property the gentleman had no connection to the owners of the property and that we could find Pischke actually paid the back property taxes on the home to keep Wilson County from seizing it in 2015 we found Piske has a history of codes violations in 2008 he illegally moved a home to a piece of land near Hermitage forcing Davidson County officials to condemn the home this is just nuts justice says he Fields weekly complaints from his constituents about the number of cars and junk being stored at the log cabin are you gaming the system Congress nation star Bank finally sent us a statement saying we greatly appreciate that you brought this to our attention and went on to say we are moving quickly to evict the home of its current residence so the home can be prepared for sale I look at this applaud Channel 5 News thank you for for actually going the extra mile helping us get this taken care of that but as we discovered getting Piske to leave may not be easy this is not your property the bank says you have no right to be yours as Piske walked to his truck we didn't realize what was about to happen got it here go God we're back it up whoa leave God we're leaving right now we're leaving right now now we were not hurt by all that but police arrested Piske and charged him with aggravated assault he bonded out and still lives in the house we'll keep watching to see if the bank actually gets him out of the home

Channel: NewsChannel 5

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Length: 4min 31sec (271 seconds)

Published: Tue May 02 2017