ALBANY, GA. -- A woman whose home began sinking and falling apart while she was still living in it is fighting to have the foreclosure expunged from her record.
When Tracy Singletary bought into the dream of home ownership in 2002, she couldn't imagine that 10 years later she'd be condemned to only the outside looking at her shattered dream.
Year after year a small hairline crack in the foundation of the home widened as Singletary began to notice more cracks popping up inside.
“When I was in the home, the interior of home there had cracks and breaks in the middle of the home,” says Tracy Singletary, former homeowner.
After trying to convince insurance companies that the home was falling apart, her coverage was dropped. Singletary says at that point she had to leave because the safety of her family comes first.
“I left in October and now they have this on my record and that's not fair to me. The house was and is uninhabitable and so how can you have this on my record and count against me,” says Singletary.
Now with no home and thousands of dollars lost, she's forced to accept a foreclosure on her record while the company who now owns the home prepares it for resale.
As she continues to fight to have the foreclosure removed from her record, she says the future home buyer should have full disclosure on the background of the structure so that they'll know the risk before buying.
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