Foreclosure crisis also hitting renters hard

2009 January 30

January 30 2009 - For Henderson Constable Earl Mitchell, it’s an easy day.

As the department tasked with enforcing court-ordered evictions, Mitchell and his deputies have a trying, and occasionally heartbreaking, job — one that has only become worse as Southern Nevada has slipped into the stranglehold of the foreclosure crisis.

But after doing 17 evictions the previous day, Mitchell only has three evictions on this day’s docket, each one on an apartment tenant who has failed to pay rent and knows what’s coming. He needs little more than an hour to carry them out, and in each case, the tenants aren’t home. One of the apartments has already been vacated.

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