AP PHOTO/REED SAXON, FILE
COLLATERAL
DAMAGE
According to Mogelberg and Genel, Slusher told them that he had
moved some of their items into
storage. He later returned a television and an Xbox game console.
When Mogelberg logged into the
game system, he found that someone with Slusher’s user name had
recently played it, he says.
Many other items, including
tools, jewelry and a box of personal papers containing birth
certificates and other forms of
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ID, were never returned, the couple claim. Mogelberg says he is
missing a red Ronald McDonald
watch with a leather band that
his mother had bought for him in
1976. It was the kind the company gave its executives that year.
Slusher owned a company
called Expert Property Preservation. He worked indirectly for
Safeguard, a Cleveland-based
company that is the dominant
player in an industry spawned by
the American housing bust.
A recent Huffington Post investigation focused on Safeguard as
While the
market is
now much
improved, an
estimated 4
million homes
are still in
some stage
of default or
foreclosure.