Why Do These Things Happen?

Yesterday I was reading about
an 81 year old lady who was
moved out of her home of 50
years, in Providence, R.I.

As they said in the article, it
wasn't because of taxes or non
payment of a mortgage payment.
It was her sewer bill. Yes, sewer
bill. This started in 2003.

Now before we get to teary eyed
over this, some of it was hers and
her family's fault. Some of it has my
head shaking. She had 1 year
to come up with the money. About
$500 worth. She or her family. And I
wonder why her family didn't.

The part that makes my head shake,
is that first, it was June 2003 and she
paid half, $498 and leaving $500 left
to be paid. BUT they sold her house
Novemember 2003, to whom I don't know
and it was sold for $500. And they gave
her 1 years to pay that $500 and she
could have the house back. That is
where I wondered why her family didn't
pay it.

What I wonder is ... why was her home
sold for $500 just 5 months later? What
was the rush? Did they offer her payments?
Like $50 a month or what. And now she has
been moved out of the house, which
by the way the Governor is upset that this
happen over a sewer bill and she was ousted
around the holidays.

The Narragansett Bay Commission said they
sent her many notices. So for this, I can't
rant and rave, as she and her daughter had
plenty of time to fix this. Also it is now a
year past when she could have been ousted.

But what happens to the house? The new
owner, who is that? And surely they are
going to resell it, so what happens to all
that money? Houses in R.I. have been
selling for over $200,000 for years. Many,
many years, unless it is really a dump.
So just for sake of argument, the place is
worth $150,000 because it is over 50 year
old house (not old by R.I. standards) then
does the lady get any of this money? If not,
then this seems just wrong. Some one gains
$145,500 by buying a house for $500 sewer
bill? It is morally wrong, for sure. There is a
new law that was suppose to prevent this from
happening, but like all laws, by the time the
item got to be a law, it was watered down.
I am going to put the story site here. So you
can copy it to read all of the story.

But then again, the family never should have
let it get this far.

Here you go, for the rest of the story...
http://www.turnto10.com/news/5528367/detail.html?treets=pro&tid=2652716744813&tml=pro_12pm&tmi=pro_12pm_1_10550312142005&ts=H