thank you all so much for the responses. i contacted the mortgage company aka the defendant on the sheriff notice. they said they can offer relocation assistance after explaining how the landlord wasnt willing to write a lease or accept payments. The only problem now is that they can not locate the property in their system at all without the loan number, i have no way to find it. we contacted the landlord and she says she doesnt know it and can not find any paperwork that came from the mortgage company either. i guess she really screwed us on this one..
also the paperwork i receieved today appears to be a sheriff auction sale notice.

