Sheriff Sale Investigation Begins (00:00:00 – 00:03:30)

Hey everybody, I’m Carla with Raised to Walk and I’m here at the Marion County Courthouse. This is probably going to be short and I’m guessing that the jackasses are going to probably try to cut this stream like they were interfering with it yesterday.

On my channel, Raised to Walk, I usually share good thoughts about good words and they’re so good that everybody steals them. I feel like I have every criminal in the western part of state of Oregon attacking me and hacking me.

Yesterday when I was coming down to the courthouse, there was massive interference with trying to go live. I just recorded, but I did an update later and said I was going to go and check out some of the records at the court.

I haven’t even started on getting all of it, but what I found, holy crap. This was for the property that there was a sheriff sale that was supposed to take place yesterday at 10:00 a.m. Last minute, they said it was postponed for an hour.

There had been several people there at 10, but at 11, there were two people that hadn’t been there at 10. One was a guy from Refresh Mortgage who ended up buying it for like $145,000 or something. Then there was some woman, I don’t know if she’s a shill bidder or what, but they were the only two there.

Oregon Corruption  (00:03:30 – 00:05:00)

When they have the courthouse sale, you’re supposed to be doing it on the courthouse steps, which is where the two women who were representing the Marion County Sheriff’s Office were standing to begin with at 10. At 11:00, they take [the bidders] back in a corner around the courthouse and two of the people were literally hiding behind the [column] because I was recording.

This is all supposed to be public. I’m recording it on my hacked Google Pixel phone and I was saying in my phone, “Well, that doesn’t look suspicious.” After I said that, the guy with Refresh Mortgage moves out and goes and stands over by the two women from the sheriff’s office.

What does that seem like to you? That seems to me that there’s some connection between them and it’s like this total crime syndicate in Oregon.

I swear I had no idea that Oregon as a state was so freaking corrupt. I think that the main industry in Oregon is identity theft. I’m thinking there’s tons of shady legals being published in the Keizertimes because it’s a small distribution paper and what is the likelihood of somebody seeing that?

I don’t think they’re posted online. They would have to be somebody that’s picking up a physical paper. I’m starting to check these out and the way everybody was acting, it was just so super sketch.

Case Documentation Analysis (00:05:00 – 00:08:00)

I go into the courthouse records room today and I’m looking and here’s the thing. I sold real estate in the ’90s. It’s been a long time and some of the things I took in real estate school, I don’t remember all of them.

I’m just looking through things to see if I notice anything because what seemed weird to me is that number one, on the Marion County Sheriff’s site when I tried to print the page as a PDF, I tried three different times and there was an error every single time. The writ of execution was uploaded as an image PDF not as selectable text. The case number was from a 2020 case number not 2025.

Mortgage History Discrepancies (00:08:00 – 00:11:00)

This is what I found. I was talking yesterday that there had been some sort of transaction in December 2022 for $35,000. This is out in Stayton on an acre. I looked in the area, just what the average price was, and the average price of homes in that area is about $400,000.

I don’t know what it was in 2022, but I had seen an obituary for somebody with the person’s name and then the heirs. The person died in 2022, like mid 2022.

If you go and look, the main case number that that foreclosure was on that was in the writ of execution was 20CV22989. That’s a case number that it was just sold on yesterday.

In some of the notes up above, it says that there is a related case. I have pictures of these people that did this. You will not believe this when I read this to you.

They filed a forcible removal on the family. They don’t let you take your phone in [the courthouse records room], or I mean you can take it, you just can’t have it on. You can’t use cell phones in there.

This is a related case: BL2004218040.^[1] I was looking at the notarizations too because some of the things look kind of weird like the initial filing in 2020. It seemed like I don’t know if this is normal, if they normally redact huge amounts of loan documents in there.

The bottom of every single page had a big black box over it. That would be maybe where signatures were.  On the original owner’s signature on [the final signature page], His was the only one on there and there were no [witness signatures on the page].

Normally the notarization is on the page where the signatures are. It wasn’t, it was on the next page. That seemed weird to me.

There was another one where they had two pages in there that said it was for state of Oregon, Washington County. This is Marion. What’s the deal with that?

So let me get to it. What it looks like to me is that the original owner had purchased a property or had the first deed of trust to SunTrust Bank back in 2007 and it was for $69,700. That was the first one.

What’s another thing that’s weird is that when I’m looking through the documents that are filed and there’s a ton of them over the years, there’s not a clear record of transfer. Wilmington Savings Bank or whatever saying that they were the primary lender that they assumed it for SunTrust Mortgage, there was nothing in there that I saw that actually proved that was the case.

I don’t know what’s normal with that because I know banks sell mortgages all the time, but that kind of adds to the confusion here. But then the one that they were really foreclosing on was one for Citibank that looked to me like that might have been a duplicate deed, like that might have been faked or something.

{The owner] bought it in 2007, that was the first time there was a deed of trust and then there was another one for Citibank a year after. It kind of seemed like there was double there.

Then there was a loan modification in 2017 for almost the same exact amount, $67,400, that what he had bought it for 10 years before. That was weird.

Two years later in 2019, there was some sort of record that came from Seterus Capital or something that was based out of Houston and saying that the balance that they owed was $19,000. It just didn’t make any sense to me.

What it looks like is that this was the father’s home who died in mid 2022. I’m going to read you this response from the heir.

It looks to me like because it’s an older home, if you go out and just search it on Zillow, it looks like an older house. This is what I’m thinking: he contracted with Refresh Real Estate to come and do some work on the house and then they put a contractor’s lien or something and then sold the house and was trying to evict him.^[2]

Homeowner’s Response to Eviction (00:11:00 – 00:15:00)

This is his response to their attempt to evict him in 2023. Just keep in mind, I’m just going to read it to you. This is his response and this is handwritten.

You can go and look this up at the court records. The eviction notice, this is his response. He’s saying the eviction notice is legally incorrect.

“My home was unlawfully purchased at wrongful non-judicial foreclosure sale. My father passed away last year and the trustees auctioned this home despite the arrangements I had made with the finance company for loan modification, despite the property being in probate, and despite there being a current judicial foreclosure judgment by the first lender.”

I’m assuming that this is the primary mortgage he’s referring to on the property. This is a Marion County case, the one that just sold yesterday: 20CV22989.

“I offered to return the money spent on my home at auction to Refresh Real Estate, the $32,515 they spent on my home.”

I don’t know what this means. It sounds like they put in about $10,000 and then he’s offering them basically $32,500 to get rid of them.

“They did not accept and told me $245,000 is what they would accept. There is between $150,000 and $200,000 in equity in my fourth generation home. I have documents proving the trustee should never have sold it. A lawsuit is being filed suing for wrongful foreclosure, fraud, etc. I have four children and this is home.”

Can you believe this crap? No wonder that guy was hiding behind a column.

Legal Representation Issues (00:15:00 – 00:17:00)

This is the other interesting thing. I didn’t have time to look at everything. They just file a deluge of paperwork and bills to overwhelm people. That’s what it looks like on this filing for 2020, just this deluge jerking him around and screwing him over, just trying to wear him out and get something past them.

It’s Robert S. Phed who has an Oregon State Bar number but he practices up in Washington and Mark Passannante. Those are the attorneys. If anybody knows them, go tell them they’re jackasses.

For the very first filing back in 2020, they were like, “Can we just want to appear by phone because the counsel is more than 50 miles from the Marion County Courthouse.” Why don’t you get a Marion County attorney and then you won’t have that problem?

This is what I found interesting from what I’ve looked at before. In July 9th, 2020, the trial judge was Mary Merten James. In March 2nd, 2021, it was changed to Tracy A. Prahl. Then in August of 2021, it was changed to James C. Edmonds.

Publication Notice Violations (00:17:00 – 00:22:00)

If there’s been three different judges in this, I’m guessing that there are probably some things that have been lost in the translation. But also, this is the other thing that’s interesting.

There’s this whole long list of documents and then sometimes you click on them and then more stuff comes up. On the affidavit of publication in May of 2021, they published the notice of foreclosure in the Woodburn Independent.

If you know where the Woodburn Independent is in Marion County, it’s not close to Stayton. I think Stayton actually does have a paper. So why they didn’t just publish there, I don’t know.

There’s a note underneath that affidavit: “Declaration ineffective. Should have been published in the Statesman Journal. Her order dated March 4th, 2021.” I looked in the list and I couldn’t find anything that was dated March 4th, 2021.

Maybe the court record system is a mess. Maybe it was altered or deleted. Could be that I’m just not seeing it, but I did look a couple times and I did not see that order.

They were ordered to publish it in the Statesman Journal by I’m thinking it’s Tracy A. Prahl. What the hell are they doing publishing it in the Keizer Times? The Keizer Times is a lot smaller distribution than the Woodburn Independent.

No one is more likely to go and see it at the Keizer Times than they are the Woodburn Independent, but I don’t see that data there also. Then they publish it again in July 2nd 2021.

Document Authenticity Concerns (00:22:00 – 00:25:00)

The Statesman Journal is like the main paper in Salem and it says the Statesman Journal Gannett company. I don’t know were they bought out or something. I looked up the affidavit because they have to publish it and then they have to send an affidavit to the person who published the notice.

This is what was interesting to me: it said the Statesman Journal. The person who signed it was a principal clerk of the Statesman Journal, the Silverton Appeal and the Stayton Mail. That notice was published in the entire issue of said newspaper in the following issue.

It doesn’t say which one. It just says it’s a principal clerk. And oh, by the way, that principal clerk was in Wisconsin.

What the heck? What kind of goat rodeo is this?

There was a notary seal on there. It did have the notary seal with her name in there, but it did not have her notary number or the expiration date of her commission.

If you look on notarization, like they sign it, but the notary has to have their own seal and it’s supposed to say their name, the notary number, and the date their commission expires. It didn’t have that. It looked like something you could buy off eBay or something as a stamp.

Why is it Wisconsin? That makes no sense to me. Maybe that’s normal, I don’t know, but that just seems weird.

At the bottom, what they’re supposed to do is they’re supposed to literally cut out when the paper comes out, they cut out the legal notice out of the paper and paste it on [the affidavit.] I don’t know who files it with court, it must be the attorney must file it with the court.

When I looked at what it said, it literally says Statesman Journal underneath the legal notice. Maybe the Statesman Journal does that, but at the Keizer Times they don’t because obviously they’re just sending it for one [paper].

If you look at underneath the legal notice [in the paper] it says Statesman Journal, which is just weird. Like literally, if this was legit, do they really publish Statesman Journal underneath every single legal notice? I don’t know, maybe they do.

The dates that were listed that was published, because if you look at the legal notices it will say like the one coming out at the Keizer Times. They have to publish twice and it will say 7/18, 7/25 for the ones that the last publication on the 25th. That means that those are the two weeks it published.

They literally had full out wrote underneath the [notice publication] that it [was published] four times in the month of June. But then the year it said 20221. There was this mistake in that.

There’s all kinds of questionable things in there. I will just say this, obviously I’m not an attorney and I don’t pretend to be one on Twitter. Four years ago when they were just getting started in this, the judge told them they had to publish the notice in the Statesman Journal.

This last notice from publication was not published in the Statesman Journal. It was published in the Keizer Times.

Investigation Conclusions (00:25:00 – 00:25:47)

I think that there’s a lot of shadiness going on with this. I don’t know the family’s story, but if there’s somebody in the area that is in Stayton, I think that somebody should be investigating it and also investigating what that company is doing.

I didn’t even get through all of it. There’s so many shady crooks out there and like nobody pays attention.

That whole order to that stipulation they had to publish in the Statesman Journal, why is that not in the records? There’s a note of it. So what, did somebody get bribed to delete it out of the records?

That’s what I did today. That’s why the guy was hiding behind the column. And that woman, just FYI, that was there, I don’t know if she was like a shill bidder to make it look authentic or what. I have your license plate.

If there’s ever anybody that looks into it and what’s going on, you can be found. That’s it. I will talk to y’all later.

Endnotes

^[1] This case number was altered in the captions file.

^[2] Note: This was not actually the case. I hadn’t looked through all the records at this point. I was just trying to make sense of the sale to Refresh Real Estate in late 2022 for $35,000. In actuality, what it appears to me is that the nonjudicial foreclosure in late 2022 was based on a fraudulent loan. I’m not sure why the heir would have offered Refresh Real Estate anything, unless he was still sorting through his father’s affairs and didn’t realize that loan was fraudulent.