From:	Laurinda Cole <apostlelaurinda@gmail.com>
Sent:	Friday, September 19, 2025 7:18 PM
To:	Elmer, Linda
Subject:	notes on the use of Dept of Public works to assist the seizing of low income 
home owners
Attachments:	note for Dept of water hearing.pdf

the rush to have the wildcat  contractors to do work on my property without my authorization, 
and to have it added to my property taxes, was nothing more than a pressure scam to force me to 
sell my home at below market prices to what I have found is not just buyers outside of the city of 
Milwaukee, but to international companies looking to buy up homes in America. I contacted 
some of these companies and gave them my street address to have them remove my home from 
their mailing lists; they did not even know what city or state my home was in. I have also 
enclosed the pages from the HOMES.com site that was at my home the very next day after the 
wildcat contractors cut the trees in front of my home, taking update pictures for their website. 
What I don't understand is, if the HOME.com people had not had contact with either the wildcat 
contractors, someone at the City of Milwaukee Dept of Water forestry section; how did they 
know that the work had been completed to show up the next day to take pictures. I could not 
even get information on my own home, for several weeks after the work was done. 

sincerely

Laurinda Cole