Sale of ex-mayor’s house postponed

A week after being booted from her mayor’s post, Joyce McKibben has won a minor victory: She can keep her house for another month.

McKibben, who was removed as Lithonia’s mayor by a 3-to-1 margin last week, has faced foreclosure of her four-bedroom home on Harmony Lakes Circle since July.

The home originally was slated to be auctioned off Tuesday morning on the DeKalb County Courthouse steps, but the sale was postponed until November, a representative from the McCall Raymer Law Firm in Roswell said.

No payments had been made on the outstanding debt as of Tuesday. McKibben bought the home, now appraised at $160,200, in 1998, according to property records. She has denied living at the property —- which is outside the city limits —- and said that a family member was living in the home. According to elections records, which were upheld by the county elections office when she ran in November 2007, McKibben lives in a Dean Court home with her mother. McKibben has been unbowed by her mounting woes. She is the only person to announce an intent to run for Lithonia mayor in the special election slated for Nov. 18.