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4. If you're old you're worth less than $7,000

Sun Jan 22, 2012, 02:30 PM

Jan 2012

So they evict her. Did that give them the $7,000 she owed them? I doubt it. They can't wait the short amount of time left to her for her to die?

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Evicted Detroiter: '100 years old, and don't have a home' [View all] James48 Jan 2012 OP

The reverse mortgage failed after property taxes were unpaid. dkf Jan 2012 #1

It seems to me that the govt should have a way for the elderly people avaistheone1 Jan 2012 #2

would make sense <eom> catrose Jan 2012 #3

+100 Auntie Bush Jan 2012 #5

The government place a lien on property she didn't own anymore? boppers Jan 2012 #15

If you're old you're worth less than $7,000 lunatica Jan 2012 #4

What would the right/baggers do? marias23 Jan 2012 #6

No evictions for anyone over 75! Liberal_in_LA Jan 2012 #7

There's like 10,000 abandoned or foreclosed houses in Detroit n2doc Jan 2012 #8

Those homes in Detroit sit on the market at $5k and can't even sell. kestrel91316 Jan 2012 #9

What a great opportunity to create a hippy commune or something. Neoma Jan 2012 #10

Read the comments! Quantess Jan 2012 #11

The Future of America Pakid Jan 2012 #12

Th last thing any of us would expect JJW Jan 2012 #13

Where are the churches Republicans are always blabbering about? Vinca Jan 2012 #14