Akron woman, 90, facing eviction, shoots self - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

Gurkha · #1 10-04-2008, 06:25 AM

http://www.ohio.com/news/break_news/30182049.html

A 90-year-old Akron woman, about to be evicted from her La Croix Avenue home for failing to pay her mortgage, apparently shot herself Wednesday while Summit County sheriff's deputies were knocking on her door.

Sad sign of times, hope it gets better soon, this is not looking good in any way.

ImBroke · #2 10-04-2008, 12:08 PM

I'd hate to be the deputy doing the knocking. Way too sad.

aklim · #3 10-04-2008, 12:18 PM

Take a couple of bullets and get off the mortgage. Sounds like a plan.

Gurkha · #4 10-04-2008, 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by aklim

Take a couple of bullets and get off the mortgage. Sounds like a plan.

Thats fine if they were swindlers, there are many out there but this was a 80 year old woman who just didn't wish to be homeless, at least the senior citizens deserve better. How bout locking up those who rip off millions of tax payers' money? They seem to end up in 5 star hotels passing off as jails.

aklim · #5 10-04-2008, 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Gurkha

this was a 80 year old woman who just didn't wish to be homeless,

at least the senior citizens deserve better.

How bout locking up those who rip off millions of tax payers' money? They seem to end up in 5 star hotels passing off as jails.

And I don't wish to work. I want to sit on the beach all day and drink strawberry daiquiris.

Why? What law of nature says that?

If you can find a crime they committed, go for it.

Medmech · #6 10-04-2008, 04:20 PM

And the rest of the story is she lived and Fannie Mae forgave her mortgage, kind of sets a dangerous precedent IMO.

LaRondo · #7 10-04-2008, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by aklim

And I don't wish to work. I want to sit on the beach all day and drink strawberry daiquiris.

Why? What law of nature says that?

If you can find a crime they committed, go for it.

The crime commited is constituted in the infringement of this country's basic framework, The Declaration of Independence

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... unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, ...

If you have money enough to pay your way through the intransparency of nowadays biggest monetary instutions, you will find crimes enough to keep you short of a few breaths. Ofcourse, only if you understand what's going on.

The next hurdle to take will be the prosecution of such crimes, which requires judges to act outside the framework of the monetary moguls, which is most likely not going to happen.

Just because the entire system is corrupt, doesn't mean them folks are innocent.

aklim · #8 10-04-2008, 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by LaRondo

Just because the entire system is corrupt,

doesn't mean them folks are innocent.

Got a better system anywhere in the world? If so, go there and let us know how it is in the long run.

Silly me. And I though you had to be proven guilty in a court of law before you are guilty.

Gurkha · #9 10-04-2008, 09:27 PM

The woman was 90, we have no idea what her situation was, even if the state absorbed her debts, how long do you think the woman would have lived. I see here as a classic case of taking it out on the wrong person when there are others who beat the system on daily basis furthering the burden of the exchequer.

aklim · #10 10-04-2008, 09:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Gurkha

The woman was 90, we have no idea what her situation was, even if the state absorbed her debts,

how long do you think the woman would have lived.

I see here as a classic case of taking it out on the wrong person when there are others who beat the system on daily basis furthering the burden of the exchequer.

Why would it matter?

What does that have to do with anything at all?

So what are we to do? Let everyone go?

Gurkha · #11 10-04-2008, 09:41 PM

No.......we punish the big fish which we hardly ever do, its always the easy target, she was 90 years old and it wasn't a house in a posh locality, maybe the state could have made her a offer of a senior citizen home instead of throwing her on the street.

aklim · #12 10-04-2008, 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Gurkha

No.......we punish the big fish which we hardly ever do, its always the easy target, she was 90 years old and it wasn't a house in a posh locality, maybe the state could have made her a offer of a senior citizen home instead of throwing her on the street.

Why? She didn't pay up and it was a legal foreclosure.

OMEGAMAN · #13 10-05-2008, 12:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Howitzer

And the rest of the story is she lived and Fannie Mae forgave her mortgage, kind of sets a dangerous precedent IMO.

So thats it she doesnt have to pay the balance of her mortgage? What happens after she passes (which may take a while seems like a tough old bird to me) is the house part of her estate free and clear. Whats it feel like to get shot?

RichC · #14 10-05-2008, 03:58 AM

What a sad world we build for ourselves.

It does not have to be this way.

Medmech · #15 10-05-2008, 09:15 AM

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Originally Posted by OMEGAMAN

So thats it she doesnt have to pay the balance of her mortgage? What happens after she passes (which may take a while seems like a tough old bird to me) is the house part of her estate free and clear. Whats it feel like to get shot?

Yip, free and clear. Her estate get the free and clear house, which also happens to be the same people that could have helped with her mortgage, whom also could have got her counseling on how to avoid foreclosure, that counseling would have taught them that a reverse mortgage would save her house at a lower interest rate.

It's a total lack of ****** accountability.

I also fault the foreclosing company for not exploring the options, the companies are hiring idiots that rubber stamp foreclosed on notes that could easily be worked out.