Squatter Comes At Nashville TV News Crew With Axe

Okay, you want to live in a beautiful house, but how about this without rent or mortgage? Well, no problem, that seems to be the case with a Mount Juliet man living in a half-million dollar home without paying a dime, so how can anyone get away with it? being a

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NewsChannel 5 investigative reporter Ben Hall went to find out we want to talk about why you're in this house, we don't touch the camera. Angry Jew. He didn't want to talk about why he's been squatting. this mount julie at home for over two years the bank your bank says you have no right to know what i have to say when you moved out it doesn't matter any of your affairs our investigation found that piske moved into the house over two years ago, Despite having no legal right to the property, the banks that had repossessed the previous owners essentially forgot about it, allowing it to remain empty for years.

This video tour of the house shows what the luxurious log cabin was like when trying to sell it. It collapsed due to confusion among the banks after the housing crisis and was empty for a while before trying to buy it. Ron and Dena Woodard fell in love with the house in 2014 and tried to buy it at auction. I knew where all my furniture was. It was going to be, I mean, it was just, you know it was ours, you know we were and the kids were just as excited as we were and their highest offer was accepted, but days before they closed, the bank pulled out. the closing of the deal there was no real explanation of the listing sorry yes in late 2012 JPMorgan Chase foreclosed on the house and then sold it to Bank of New York Mellon as investor trustees for a mortgage backed security check about the house since then. from Countrywide Financial to Bank of America and finally donation star meanwhile, it is sadly empty, we couldn't get in touch with anyone who could claim any responsibility for the maintenance or the property or anything else, that point, the city commissioner, Ray Justice, contacted more than one bank about it. the abandoned house they didn't seem to care I got no response zero response it was at that moment Jude Piske his friends and family suddenly showed up at the house this is probably one of the strangest things I've ever had to deal with the police were first Called the home in April 2015 over a domestic dispute involving Piske and his ex-wife.

In September police discovered a stolen vehicle on the property. The gentleman had no connection to the owners of the property and we were able to discover that Pischke actually paid the return. property taxes on the house to prevent Wilson County from seizing it in 2015. We found out that Piske has a history of code violations. In 2008, he illegally moved a house to land near Hermitage, forcing Davidson County officials to condemn the house. This is crazy. He says he fields weekly complaints from his constituents about the amount of cars and scrap metal being stored at the log cabin.

Are you gaming the system? Congress Nation Star Bank finally sent us a statement saying we really appreciate you letting us know about this and moving on to Let's say we are moving quickly to vacate the house from its current residence so the house can be prepared for sale. I look at this, I applaud Channel 5 News, thank you for going the extra mile to help us fix this, but as we found out. 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 We have it Here we go God, we have it we back Whoa, leave God, we're leaving right now, we're leaving right now, we weren't hurt by all that, but the police arrested Piske and charged him with aggravated assault.

He was released on bail and still lives at the house. We will continue to observe to see if. the bank really takes it out of the house