"Beatrice Cortinas starts her day at 2:30 a.m. The school cafeteria worker is off for the summer, but she still gets up early to make lunch for her husband, outside in their backyard, by lantern light.
Armando Cortinas wakes up a few minutes later. It's hard sleeping in their backyard tent. He brushes his teeth using the garden hose and then goes to the storage shed to get ready for his work day as an electrician.
The home near Maryland Parkway and St. Louis Avenue was locked up by constables July 11th. The Cortinas' say Wells Fargo claimed the family hadn't paid their mortgage in years. They had bankruptcy protection trying to get their credit cards in order.
"We were never behind. We paid every month, we never refused to make a payment," said Armando Cortinas"...............READ MORE
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