100-year-old woman beat the bank on foreclosure. Now her niece wants to evict her

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-agnes-eviction-notice-20100505,0,327787.story

Niece sends notice of eviction to 100-year-old aunt

By Colleen Mastony, Tribune reporter

8:58 p.m. CDT, May 5, 2010

Agnes Albinger, the 100-year-old Monee resident who has spent the past nine months battling foreclosure, has a new adversary: her own niece.

Bridget Gruzdis, 47, sent Albinger a notice of eviction this week. The document, dated Monday, gives Albinger 13 days to vacate the 70-acre farm where she has lived since 1949.

Public officials who have been helping Albinger in her case said they had received the notice Wednesday and were researching Albinger's options.

"We're going to take every necessary step to make sure Mrs. Albinger can stay on her property," said Charles Pelkie, a spokesman for the Will County state's attorney's office, which is working on the case with the Monee Police Department, as well as officials representing Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan.

The eviction letter came just days after First Midwest Bank officials halted foreclosure proceedings and vowed to do everything they could to allow Albinger to remain in her home. Monee village code enforcement officials had also agreed to extend a previous deadline and give Albinger more time to make repairs.

the niece now owns the property and there is appr. 700k in loans against it. I am surprised they got the foreclosure stopped.

Sounds like it might even border on a criminal issue.

I am currently living with the same problem with the house directly behind me. Now vacant for over a year and boarded up. The daughter kept mom borrowing money on it, close to 200k, and mom dies and daughter skips out.

The property in its current state worth maybe 50k and not livable. The daughter was stripping things out of the house, like the wood floors. Basement is feet of standing water.

sigh..

Besides shameful, it sounds like it may have been illegal. Elder abuse is a serious problem.

Sounds like a case of the woman not wanting to move and being a really really really bad business operator. The article stated she wanted to "develop the land".

Now call me crazy, but if I did that, I would have creditors busting down my door for repayment.

But because this woman is 100 years old, she gets off? and the niece is the evil one?

I don't know, call me crazy, but it sounds like to me that this 100 year old woman is trying to use her age as sympathy for her screwed up dealings in business.

Being old doesn't absolve one from being foolish or stupid.

nothing worse than an old fool.

:shrug:

I take back my opinion, based upon your observation.

I did the typical DU knee jerk reaction. I apologize.

There is, no doubt, more to this story.

Cheers! :)