Economic Downturn is an Upturn for Some

A bad economy isn't bad for everyone.

While business may be booming, serving evictions and foreclosures exacts a toll on employers like Ody Eire, who owns Ody's Professional Process, a process server in Lehigh Acres.

"It's pretty sad," she said. "I've served people where I've sat down with them for an hour, telling them it will get better. I've cried with people. It's tough because I'm a female and we're emotional."

Wants Process Server Rules

Four years ago, the Smith brothers, Tyrone and William, had plans to develop a condo project on property they inherited at Fulton and Dwight streets.

But a foreclosure notice involving their property at 110 Fulton Ave. - that was either properly served or not - killed those dreams.

Based on his belief that the foreclosure notice was mishandled, state Assemblyman L. Harvey Smith, D-Jersey City, has proposed legislation aimed at regulating process servers.

There are currently no requirements to become a process server.

Did you Hear the One About Buddy Johnson?

So did you hear the one about the process server who spent 18 days trying to track down an elected official who never seemed to be in his office and whose employees seemed clueless as to his whereabouts?

And how, later at a deposition, that same elected official couldn't seem to answer dozens of questions about office procedures?