101-year-old Detroit woman foreclosed on, evicted

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Source: CBS News

DETROIT - A 101-year-old woman was evicted from the southwest Detroit home where she lived for nearly six decades after her 65-year-old son failed to pay the mortgage.

Texana Hollis was evicted Monday and her belongings were placed outside the home. Her son, Warren Hollis, said he didn't pay the bill for several years and disregarded eviction notices.

"I kept it from her because I didn't want to worry her," Warren Hollis told WXYZ-TV for a report that aired Monday night. "I was just so sure it wasn't going to happen."

Wayne County Chief Deputy Treasurer David Szymanski told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the Hollises took out an adjustable-rate mortgage in 2002. A default and foreclosure notice was filed in November.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/14/national/main20105923.shtml

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I don't know what the son's situation is so I'm not going to blast him. My heart breaks for Ms. Hollis. People have stepped in to help, including a neighbor who's letting them stay in a rental home on the same street and a nonprofit organization trying to help with getting her back home. She was taken to the hospital after all this happened due to "disorientation." I can imagine after being in the same place for so long to suddenly be living in a strange environment. Sad.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

1. Multple prior similar threads

[Blue Owl]

2. The Tea Baggers: "Let Her Die!!!"

n/t

[24601]

4. The tea baggers - obviously forced her son to not pay the mortgage.

Sorry, but the doofus here is the one who was supposed to pay and not only failed to do so, but decided on his own that nothing bad would happen when he didn't. Blame the Tea Party, Bush, Reagan & Lincoln if you want - but that doesn't change the facts.

[valerief]

3. Santorum would say, "She's lived too long." They are, after all, the Party of HATE. nt

[Devil_Fish]

5. Santorum would be a frothy stain on the bed sheets. NT