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Updated: 11:44 PM Sep 3, 2008
Air Force Families Booted From Base Housing
Prank leads to evictions Two Air Force wives find themselves in the middle of a battle here on the home front, a war of words that's forcing them to move from base housing. Posted: 10:51 PM Sep 3, 2008Email Address: sixonline@wowt.com |
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Two Air Force wives find themselves in the middle of a battle here on the home front, a war of words that's forcing them to move from base housing.
The two rank their friendship with matching tattoos. "We're best friends," said Sally Mikat. "We're best friends," said Ammie Ennis.
Their freedom to be friends is being restricted by the private company that runs base housing. Rising View ordered that Mikat can't go within a 100 feet of Ennis’ rental home at 28th and Capehart in Bellevue.
“Our husbands are fighting for our freedoms and I can't even go see my friend because the landlord said no," says Mikat.
“It's grade school, it's ha, ha we're going to see what we can do,” says Ennis. “We think you're bad and when you guys get together you feed off each other."
The dispute started at the curb of Ammie's base house that the landlord made ‘no parking’ after a complaint from a military neighbor, a move mocked by the two women with chalk mark outlines of themselves. The two women weren't made to look threatening like a dead body, but rather like they were jumping over the caution tape on the barricades in front of the house.
Ammie and Sally say housing management viewed the body outlines as possible hate threats aimed at the neighbor. “There was no malicious intent, we were frustrated and we were trying to make the best of a bad situation,” says Ennis.
Their husbands are stationed at Offutt, but both have been ordered by the civilian landlord to move their families out of base rental houses by the end of September.
“I've lived here within this housing for seven years, never been in trouble, never had a write-up. Then I do a chalk outline and I'm kicked to the curb along with my children,” says Mikat.
Sally says they're still looking, but Ammie's family found a rental home in Sarpy County. They can't park the moving truck in front of the base house they've been ordered to leave. "I think it's definitely singling me out and making an example."
The landlord has ordered both women to stay away from the other neighbor's base house. A property director says privacy laws prevent her from commenting. That only adds to the mystery here.
When the notices were received that the leases will not be renewed, no written explanation was provided.








