Friday, April 16, 2010

Family Accuses Real Estate Broker Of Scamming Elderly Alzheimer's Victim Out Of Mortgage Payments, Allowing Home To Go Into Foreclosure

In Detroit, Michigan, WJBK-TV Channel 2 reports:

  • A Detroit man is being forced from his home after a foreclosure. His family says the man had been paying a real estate broker for every month for the past five years, but the bank holding the mortgage never got the money. "My dad, he got scammed. He was pretty much thinking he was paying the mortgage company, which he wasn't paying the mortgage company. He was paying the wrong mortgage company," said Clement Ramos, Jr. Clement Ramos, Sr. has lived in a home on Rosemary since 1983. However, the 79-year-old retired General Motors worker has been in declining health. "He has Alzheimer's. He flips in and out," Ramos, Jr. said. [...] "We went to court Monday, and the court gave my dad till May the fifth to be out of his home," Ramos, Jr. said.

For the story, see Family: Mortgage Company Never Got the Money.

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