Wrong address on forclosure?

[Kate Elson]

Last week one of my tenants called to ask if I was being foreclosed on. Someone had come to the house (Three family) and knocked on all the doors and told my tenants that I no longer owned the house. I told my tenant that this was not the case, this was either a mistake or a scam. I called all the residents of the house and let them know that I would be looking into this. One of them texted me a copy of the letter left by this man and I could see why they were upset. The letter stated that the house was sold at a foreclosure auction had the address of my house listed on it and stated that they were all being evicted effective immediately. I was very upset to read this as well I have never made a late mortgage payment, I certainly haven't missed any, and I was in the process of closing on another property so my credit had just been run and this would have shown up if the bank had made an error. I called the number on the letter and got a call back relatively quickly from the man who had been to the house. I assured him there was some kind of mistake and persisted that he give me more information. Eventually he "realized" he made a mistake and it wasn't #20 (my house) but another house on the street #241. I asked him to call my tenants back immediately to let them know his mistake, since he had just told them all I was essentially a deadbeat, which he did. This was a short lived but stressful couple hours and I thought all is well that ends well and no real harm done. Out of curiosity I tried to look up the house that was forclosed on and I can't find a #241 on that street. I'm a little worried that this might be some sort of scam and wonder if should I report it to somebody? For those of you deal in forclosures does this sort of thing happen? This was in Whitman a small town on the south shore of Boston, Ma