Today we’d like to introduce you to Lynn Lamance
Hi Lynn, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
I was living in the five Oaks neighborhood during the foreclosure crisis and was watching my neighborhood get vacant. As it got more and more vacant, the grass started not getting cut. The trash started piling up and then it led to doors and windows being opened on the vacant properties. It got me very curious about who owned the vacant properties or who is responsible for maintaining them. I’ll look up owners of properties and try to communicate with them on the conditions I also try to communicate with realtors if the property is up for sale and two banks if the property is in foreclosure or bank owned.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
Sometimes they are our owners or property management companies that are not responsive. Sometimes there are owners that are out of the country or where I have not been able to find a forwarding address for. Here in Dayton, there are actually numerous properties where owners are deceased, and the property is not in probate.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
I have previous work experience in housing. I have worked for an insurance company handling homeowners policies. I have worked at a homeless woman shelter. I have worked at section 8, which is the subsidize housing program for the area. And then, lastly, I have worked for a mortgage company handling conditions of foreclosed properties.
Is there a quality that you most attribute to your success?
I feel that I try to be open minded to the owners, mortgage, companies, realtors and property management companies on the conditions they may not be aware of. I always include pictures and try to be helpful where, as some neighbors seem angry and many times the owners or realtors are not responsive with that type of communication.
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