Tacco Cullins and her family were evicted from their home on Sims Street after going to court to resolve a dispute with who she thought were her landlords.
A mother of 11 evicted from a southwest Atlanta home has discovered that the people she paid rent to never owned the house.
Tacco Cullins and her family were evicted from their home on Sims Street after going to court to resolve a dispute with the people she thought were her landlords.
"They tried to evict me out of the property and I went with the lawyer and found out they were not the owners of the house," said Cullins.
Family members say their problems started with a fire in the electrical unit about a year ago. The blaze made the home inhabitable. When Cullins refused to pay rent, the fake landlords kicked the family out.
The Cullins family are now seeking assistance and homeless.
"A family like this, with all kinds of kids, this is a situation where you're putting somebody else's life in jeopardy," said Octavius Cullins, one of Tacco's sons.
The family members the one thing they have is each other. They say until Occupy Our Homes Atlanta stepped in, Georgia Division of Family and Children Services even threatened to take the children away.
"Without my children, there's no me, period," said Tacco Cullins.
Occupy Our Atlanta Homes is currently working with the family to find them a more permanent place to live.
The family says that the supposed landlords did not show up in court and they are not sure what happened to them.
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Tacco Cullins and her family were evicted from their home on Sims Street after going to court to resolve a dispute with who she thought were her landlords.
