GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Grieving families say a Grand Rapids estate sale company has been keeping the money after selling their dead loved ones’ household goods.
The complaints against Eastown Estate Services and owner Mike Dykhouse have so far yielded a felony charge in Kent County, a civil judgement in Barry County and an F rating from the Better Business Bureau .
Among the victims is the estate of well-known political activist Hank Fuhs, who died last year. According to the executor of his estate, Sean Jennings, the estate sale at the Fuhs home on Leonard Avenue NE went well and produced a check for $6,000. But after remaining items at the house and storage lockers full of items were liquidated, the company and Dykhouse stopped communicating, Jennings said. He thinks Eastown Estate Services owes the Fuhs estate around $25,000.
“Now the family is losing out on what he tried to leave them,” Jennings said…