Home sold off for $20,000 after credit card debt | The Courier-Mail

Home sold off for $20,000 after credit card debt | The Courier-Mail: "A BRISBANE couple lost their $315,000 home over a credit card debt of $8000, only finding out after the home was sold for $20,000 at a bailiff's auction.

The first they knew about it was when the new owner, who had to pay the couple's outstanding $220,000 mortgage, phoned them and said: 'Get out.'"