I've been debating on posting this for a few months now. Ok, so my mom is in her early 50's. She's never been to college. She's not by any means "slow" but she can be naive and unknowledgable on certain things and it's pretty easy to throw around big words as she doesn't have any idea what you're talking about.
Ok, so here is the issue. Back in Dec, my mom called me up to discuss this program that she got approved of ($20,000 grant for a home). Since this is what I'm in school for, she asked my opinion. I told her that I'd come to check the place out w/ her blah blah..
Well anyway she signed the papers and everything without me. My mom lives in Cleveland and for those who dont' know they have a serious problem with predatory lending and such.
So, a few months ago, I come to visit my mom. As soon as I walked in the house, which is a townhome I could see issues that I was concerned with. She bought a 3 bedroom 1.5 bath house for a little over $100,000. Sounds good except my mom has damn near EMACCULATE credit and this house is literally across the street from some damn projects (ie. public housing) and a cemetary. With foreclosure rates the way they are, she could've gotten a house in the suburbs for about the same amount.
So, while I was first here visiting. I slept in the basement. It's just about fully finished. Ok, so I'm up on the phone and I could hear walking up and down the stairs and the TV blaring. So I look at the wall and notice there is a hole in the ceiling and I can literally hear everything that is going on in the next house!
Later that next day, while my mom is at work, I come down stairs and guess what I found. Raw sewage covering the entire basement floor. When my Mom got home, she made several phone calls to the people who she bought the house from (Development company) and for the most part they ignored her phone calls.
After I sent a firm email to the guy he immediately called my mom and said someone will be out. This took days, and the contractors that came out basically said something was clogged at the townhome next door to my mom.
So now, there is currently mold growing on the walls in my moms BRAND NEW home! Oh, and did I mention for the first month that she was here, they hadn't properly sealed the kitchen sink or the shower head..so both were leaking. The showerhead water was leaking down into the lighting fixture in the kitchen.
So now, I just get a call from some guy with the (Devolopment Company) he tells me to check the basement cause the guy next door said his is flooded. Yup, you guessed it..so is my Moms. So, I ask him why mom doesn't have her own pipes and the guy says something like "all 2 houses share a sewer line"
Ok, so my mom won't be home yet until 7pm and I'm pissed the eff off! The first time all this stuff happened I asked my mom tons of questions as to why she didn't do a walk through and hire a home inspector. She said the (development company) told her they had their own, and it would save her $300. I pulled up this company on Google and found a SHITLOAD of negative information on them. I even showed the links to my mom..yet at the time she was still just being naive saying, "well they'll get it done.."
I'm stressing the hell out. My mom is such a good person and I hate that she's being taken advantage of. Advice, opinions...I just feel like exploding on these people!



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