Intro: "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 cries as her possessions were thrown into dumpsters after bailiffs moved to take possession of her home in Detroit, Michigan, 09/13/11. (photo: ABC)
101-Year-Old Woman Evicted in Foreclosure
14 September 11
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.
"They ended up owing $80,000 on the home," Szymanski said. "Warren indicates he did not make the payments. He got the notices, but threw them away."
County records show that property taxes were paid on the home through summer 2010. A winter tax bill of $55.95, including interest and fees, was unpaid, and a $778.44 summer tax bill was due this month.
A neighbor was letting Texana and Warren Hollis live in a rental house across the street from the home they shared, and Texana Hollis' belongings were being moved there. Others, including a nonprofit organization, were working to get her back into her home.
On Monday night, she was taken to a hospital for evaluation after she became disoriented.
Szymanski said county officials were asking questions and looking into what they can do to help. He said the county has worked with 10,000 taxpayers to keep them from going into foreclosure.
"The teachable moment here is for people not to stick their head in the sand," he said.
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It would not suprise me if they were.
WHAT A DISGUSTING COURSE OF ACTION! We the REAL PEOPLE had better get it in motion and VOTE OUT all these CALLOUS CRIMINALS masquerading as government officials and "leaders" of the nation.
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It was HUD, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, i.e. "us". Like Regina said (below) "they're all vicious and vindictive". The System is vicious and vindictive.
We cannot vote the banks out. We cannot vote the System out. What does it take for us to get that "Change!" is just a campaign promise?
What's wrong cannot be fixed passively by voting, asking, protesting, carrying signs or lighting candles. The "how" must be up to small groups and individuals, not those "in power".
I dread becoming 80+ in this America, as the son must surely be, but to be 101 and dependent on what I bought and paid into for all my life...frightening!
Impossible to imagine their fear.
I applaud those helping them. Someone work with the son, too. I'm sure he must be in poverty along with his mother, and is elderly and unable to find "work" or do work himself.
And that's all just so sad that THIS is our America for real. We kick our elderly to the curb...sigh.
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