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Staff photo Mark Gokavi The Knights Inn in Xenia at 38 S. Allison Ave.

Knights Inn owners say business will remain open.

By Mark Gokavi, Staff Writer Updated 9:25 AM Friday, December 23, 2011

XENIA — The owners of a Xenia motel that has faced two lawsuits regarding bedbugs is now facing foreclosure proceedings for a $737,000 mortgage note.

The Security National Bank of Springfield filed the complaint against the Knights Inn at 38 S. Allison Drive and owners Anil K. Jain and Ashima Jain of Beavercreek in Greene County Common Pleas Court.

Security National Bank alleges it is due a promissory note of $737,997.44 plus interest on a $985,000 mortgage deed filed in October 2005. The suit alleges the Jains and Jain, Inc. have defaulted in payment of the loan.

The motion for summary judgment will be decided by Judge Michael A. Buckwalter without oral arguments. Court documents indicate opposing affidavits and memoranda must be filed by Jan. 3 and replies filed by Jan. 13.

The Jains’ attorney, Thomas Lagos, said via voicemail that Anil Jain is a hard-working gentlemen, that the motel will stay open and that Jain is going to continue to be able to serve the people of Greene County with a first-class motel.

A 2010 lawsuit filed by Illinois residents Javana Bryant and Tejuna Sanders said they were injured by bedbugs during a 2008 stay at the Knights Inn. The case recently was settled out of court after civil mediation.

Another suit filed earlier this year alleged that a guest and his wife saw motel employees remove bedbugs from a bed in their room and place them inside a container. Another man alleged that when he collected his clothes from the motel they were infested with bedbugs.

Attorney Kenneth J. Ignozzi of Dyer, Garofalo, Mann & Schultz said Mark A. Anderson of Dayton and David A. Washington of Xenia do not know each other, but were placed together in the lawsuit because of their common defendant. That case is ongoing.

Ignozzi said in November 2010 that Anderson and his wife “planned on staying there for a couple days while their apartment was getting ready. They were only there one night and woke up and he had bites all over him. Of course, they left early. They told the front desk, and they said, ‘Nah, we don’t have bedbugs here,’ and it was like, ‘Sure, you do.’ ”

The Andersons claim they watched as motel employees cleaned their room.

“They were pulling the bed sheets down and they saw bugs crawling around,” Ignozzi said. “The hotel employees somehow or another scooped it up and put the bug in a container said that they would be given to the exterminator.”

Washington’s complaint states bedbugs were in clothes that were being stored at the motel in October 2010.

Contact this reporter at (937) 225-6951 or mgokavi@DaytonDailyNews.com.

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