LATE FILING BRINGS DELAY IN HEARING PAIR'S EVICTION CONTINUED.

Byline: Kathleen Sweeney Staff Writer

SANTA CLARITA - A hearing to decide whether David and Theresa Bischoff will lose their house after refusing to pay homeowner association fees was continued Friday for two weeks.

Commissioner Thomas R. White continued the eviction hearing in Newhall Superior Court until Feb. 22 after Dan Weider, who purchased the Bischoffs home in November, filed a late response to their claim that proper foreclosure procedures weren't conducted.

``I feel bad for them that they lost the property,'' Weider said of the Bischoffs. But ``I'm responsible for that property.''

Weider bought the home - worth an estimated $235,000 - for $21,100 in November at an auction. He said he wants the Bischoffs to leave so he can sell the home. He also is asking that they pay $5,800 in rent for the time they have lived in the house since he acquired the property.

But the Bischoffs and their three children are fighting to save the home they've lived in since 1995.

Allan J. Sarkin, the Bischoffs' attorney, said that process is far from over.

Foreclosure procedures began in May after the Bouquet Canyon Hills Homeowners Association claimed the Bischoffs owed $2,848.40 in past due fees and foreclosure collections costs.

David Bischoff said he didn't pay the dues because he was fined $50 for a bylaw violation he didn't commit. Until that fine was removed, he wasn't going to pay dues.

The homeowners association said it removed the fine.

By the time the Bischoffs learned it was removed, Weider had already bought the house and was asking them to vacate it.