A “friend” of my aunts has decided that she needs help and attempted to move in with her last year. We were able to get the friend to leave the first time after my aunt said the boyfriend (that was moving in as well) of the friend made her feel uncomfortable. We believe they prevented my aunt from contacting us ( house phone disconnected and cell phone doesn’t ring anymore). They have seemed to exert undue influence and have moved in again. They have also taken her to a lawyer to make a trust, and also file a beneficiary deed on her house to put it in the trust. I contacted dhss so they could investigate them on possible financial exploitation. The last time we saw her, she couldn’t pay her bills on time, remember what city she lived in and we would have to repeat things over and over because she couldn’t remember. I’m just not sure what to do. I am still waiting to hear from the investigator. We plan on going to see her tomorrow while the “friends” are at work. I just really hope the investigator can see that she is incapacitated/incompetent and we can get them out of her house so family can help her get what she needs. Has anyone had experience similar to this? How did it work out?
From my experience Elderly Affairs is useless and does nothing to help
Fast forward, I pulled the house up online, and it was in a shambles for years until a man bought it in 2010 and started fixing on it again. I don't know what happened to the con artists that took the house. More than likely, they got old themselves and died out of the picture, or couldn't afford the upkeep and moved out. Who knows.
According to the realtor, the man who purchased the house in 2010, got old and couldn't continue the work on the house. I spoke with the original realtor who told me the history of this house after it left my grandma's possession after her passing.
Back to the old man who bought the house; he sold it, and a realtor took over the house, fixed it, and flipped it. A family bought it in 2023, and now it is in liveable shape again.
It just shows how needy elderly get taken advantage of. Grandma should have gone to a home where she would have been safe from harm. Dad never pursued this and was too busy with his new wife and her family to worry about his mother. Oh, dad did the same to his family after his passing.