I've probably lost the battle.

Texas and probably most of the states want to give people control over their life without government stepping in.

Even in situations like this where the woman is mentally not right, as long as she can answer basic questions like ' Are you aware you are selling your house? ' they seem to be deemed ok to sign documents to facilitate that. No one cares she is selling it because the seller was told lies about her foreclosure situation and will lose about $200,000. Buyers simply scared her into signing ' You're going to lose everything ' ' Foreclosure is in 10 days ' ' You won't get a dollar if they foreclose '

I'm expecting the property to transfer ownership this week. She will get virtually nothing in her pocket after the deal is done, plus she will be homeless unless someone takes her in. Only ones willing to do that will probably be other drug users that group together.

At least her property will be cleaned up fairly soon. I expect the buyer to put a 'Airbnb' or VRBO due to the lake view and location.

Plus net over $200,000 in equity after closing.

That's sad to hear .

I have know far too many who went down the addiction rabbit hole .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

I prefer to be honest instead of not admitting my mistakes.

I've found the person I was trying to help was not the person I remembered from my first eight years of knowing her. I quit associating with her when she started using drugs.

Got back involved about three weeks ago when I heard one of her properties was being foreclosed on and a person was trying to buy it at a very low price. I did that because of her parents and her son that is about 22 years old.

Yesterday morning I was waiting, parked outside her home, intending to take her to the bank for a couple of hundred dollars to buy groceries with.

Wasn't the first time I waited a long time. Last week it was over 3 hours, I was intending to take her to a laundry, a truck stop for a shower, and a restaurant meal. After waiting 3 hours she told me she had to call the FBI so they could investigate the ' loan officer ' that handled the mortgage on her second property. Tried to tell her that was not going to happen because they typically only investigate much larger happenings. I left.

So yesterday after I had waited about an hour, she came out screaming at me to ' leave, I didn't ask for your help '.

Net of it is, she is still a drug user and is probably also selling drugs. She is selling her property to the first person that offered enough to give her a little money on top of what she owes. Now my belief is she will probably take that amount of money and use it to keep living the ' low life ' that she has, just at a different location.

She's definitely mental but savvy enough to know how to get a bit of money, no matter the consequences.

Drugs are a b*tch .

I lost so many friends to them in the 70's and beyond .

Hopefully before she died she'll get the help she so badly needs .


You're a good man trying to help but they cannot be forced .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

Chase has a vested interest here, and they may get involved if elder abuse is brought to their attention. Or maybe not. In the end, someone is going to take her property, whether it be a land shark or the bank. You have a good heart, but you can't fix the world. The only one who gives a damn is you. Don't become co-dependent.

I checked it out as much as reasonably possible.

What I think I've found is it doesn't seem to matter how much money/property is involved and potentially lost.

If they can affirm they know they are selling their property and they have accepted the offer it is pretty much a done deal.

Too costly most likely, for anyone to try to reverse it. I don't think it qualifies for elder abuse, she's in her 50's. Plus a long history now of drug abuse and quite a few visits of the law to her home due to ' drug ' issues. In the south it appears that ' large lake ' property attracts a bunch of seedy characters. They're basically referred to as ' lake rats '.

From what I know now, her main contact appears to be a seedy character that has a ' rich ' nephew that does deals such as this. He is the ' good guy ' in this, coming up with money to quickly take away the problem she thinks she has. The seedy character is the one that makes the verbal statements that scare her.

If she thought more rationally she could have realized full value for her 4 lots with a close lake view. Probably would have had more than four offers on the first day on the market. I had hoped her family could have stepped in to help but they are 750 miles away and in their 80's. Her son has tried to help but she quickly turned against him.