Disabled widow's retirement and house stolen.

VENMO: @Dianna-StDennis--Need to retain an attorney to fight this injustice.

it's been a rough few years, i have MS and been dealing with several medical conditions and dealing with grief due to multiple deaths in our family. On top of that, i found out my daughter-in-law has been taking advantage of me while my husband and I were supposed to be in her care. My son and huband were two of the family members that have passed. I am in a bad place, so sick and filled with grief. She committed fraud and stole the majority of my retirement and is now trying to steal my home. I am going through adult protective services and hiring an attorney to fight this. With my retirement gone and with Bruce's passing, I'm left with just my disability and some pensions that last for only 10 years to survive. She has attorney's in her family and i don't. I can't afford to retain the services of an attorney to fight this. I need to ask anyone that can help to please donate to my cause. I will include, after this, some details that led to where were I'm at today. Anything is appreciated. Please share this post, to reach as many people as possible. Thanks!

Bruce had 2 strokes and open heart surgery. He required 24 hour care, but sadly, passed away just over a year ago. I was recovering from cancer, got Covid Pneumonia and spent 8 days in the hospital. I now have MS, long-haulers covid, blood clots in my lungs and have had several TIA's (mini strokes.) I have been unable to get off oxygen to this day and have several other issues. I had 3 accidents in the last 18 months. I feel down the stairs twice and broke my leg, and later, tore my rotater cuff, i now have now a broken toe and can barely walk. I'm still on oxygen from the covid. When we were in the middle of all these problems, I asked my son and daughters-in-law to help prepare things for the sale of my home. I planned to use the money to pay off our debt and buy another smaller home. I was overwhelmed with the process, so i trusted them to help me. I rented a condo during this time. It turned out to be the biggest mistake of my life. My daughter-in-law held an estate sale and sold just about all of our possesions. She sold Bruce's Dooley Dodge Ram, with low mileage it was worth about 40,000. According to her, she sold it to her friend for only 20,000. She sold Bruce's massive gun collection, all of his motor cycles, and all of our furnature and possesions in our home. I never saw one cent. We only owed $90,000 on our home and had about $400,000 in our 401K. All of our possessions were valued somewhere between $70,000 and $90,000. I wouldn't know for sure because i never saw a receipt or was given a penny. Around this time, my son and daughter-in-law came to me with a proposition. They said theh would take over our home loan, pay off all of our debt, and would take $50,000 more out of the equity to turn the basement i to a mother-in-law apartment. The agreement was the following:

1, We would gift them the additional equity on the home, about $350,000, and we would live there until we die rent free. In addtion, Bruce and i would be added to the title as half owners.

2. We would pay to remodel the upstairs and they would pay for the basement remodel work with the $50,000 they put on the loan.

3. They would take care of all upkeep and maintenence on the home.

4. They would take care of and assist with our medical needs.

5. Finally, when we pass away, they would take possession of the home.

I was recovering from from cancer at the time and was working full time and taking care of Bruce, when they made this offer.

I was emotionally drained and couldn't handle the stress of everything, so i initially accepted the deal. But when my mind became more clear, i changed my mind. I thouhgt i would use money from the 401k to pay off the house and all of our debt. I let them know my decision, and they became very angery. They used abusive language while screaming at me and bullied me into accepting the deal. I didn't have the fight in me, so i finally gave them their way.

My son was working a lot of hours, so my daughters-in-law took charge of everything. She took care the loan proccess, her friend was the realtor, and took us to the title company, where her cousin attorney worked. We signed paperwork for what we thought was to add us to the new title. I recently found out we were never added to the title.

She hired her father and his crew to do the remodeling. He was a retired contractor. She said we would get the family discount. Supposedly, the money left from the sale of our possessions, were given to her father, to pay for the remodel. With in the first couple of weeks, she said the money from the sale of our propertywas gone and she needed more money. She said the three workers charged $300 per hour, plus her dad's fee and all the materials were very expensive. I had no idea what it cost to remodel anything, plus it is a big house and i trusted her.

She was asking for thousands of dollars every week. She wanted cash. I pulled a bunch of money out of the 401k. I continued to give her cash for awhile, but it was difficult for me to go to the bank, so i switched to checks. She was cashing thousands of dollars in checks every week and the bank became suspicious of her and called the police. By the time they finished the upstairs and started on the basement, beside the money i owed to the irs for early Withdrawn and taxes, i had almost nothing left in my 401k. I paid thousands in taxes and i still owe about 30,000 as a result of taking all the money out for the remodel. She had over charged me for everything and conservatively stole over $200,000 from me (This is an estimate.)

With the house, i was never given one bid or receipt. I found out not one permit was obtained, and they spent most of the $50,000 they got for the basement. They said they couldn't afford it to fix it the way i wanted, so even though i had already fit the remodel upstairs, paid for all the appliances upstairs and all the supplies for a trex deck in the backyard on my home depot card, i also had to put all the appliances downstairs on it, as well as the tub and shower. They never finised the basement. My lease was up and we had to move back in. The electricity was not up to code. I still have no power in half of my bathroom. There was still a hole in the ceiling, the shower wasn't installed, there was no grout in the kitchen tile. There were also no hand rails on the stairs, which contributed to one of my falls. There were no doorknobs, so she would just walk in when i was changing or in the tub. I had no privacy. The first year we were not charged rent, but actually offered to pay half the utilities. They weren't taking care of our medical needs. I had to get other family members to help.

Then my son died.

At this point she stated charging us half the rent. The other half was suposedly split three ways between her and her two kids and significant others. There were 4 of them, and after Bruce passed, there was just me. I was charged over $800 a month for utilities. She was also charging her kids as well. She refused to show me the bills. It turned out i was paying all the utilities plus being changed an additional $300-400 a month. When my son died she refinanced the home and added her son's new car balance and paid off their Can Am and travel trailer, so the balance increased. I was paying her debt since i was charged half the house payment. When i found out Bruce and i weren't ever on the title, i confronted her. She claimed she didn't know and would fix it. This was a lie. She did know, she had taken my son off the title when he died, so would've have been aware we weren't on there. She did add me to the title, but she also added both of her kids as well, making her essentially 3/4 owner and me 1/4. After consulting with members in my church and some attorneys and looking where all my money went, i realized the extent of fraud and that had been committed against me. I confrunted her about everything and she wouldn't even respond to it. I offered her a deal, i just wanted to pay 1/4 of the rent and utilities and i wanted her to take her kids off the title. I also asked to see the utility bills but she refused. She did charge me less at this point. Instead of about $770 for the rent, she charged me $335. For the utility's i was charged about $150 This made no since. i was paying $800 so 1/4 would be $400. If $150 was a fourth them the total bill was $600 it was obviously not the right amount. I don't believe that the $150 is even 1/4 of the utility's, i believe is actually the right amount for half. I was being changed for the gas, electric, xfinity, and water and garbage separately. She told me the biggest bill was the electric and was about $230. All the rest were much smaller. That did not at up to $800 and i was supposed to be paying half. So basically, she had been claiming the utilities were $1600 a month. After taking to her i realized not only was i being charged for all of the utility's, but i was paying hundreds of dollars extra each month. She denies any wrong doing and still refuses to fix the title. She won't answer my calls or respond to my texts. She just sends me venmo requests for the bills. She had yelled at me and exclaimed "i am not trying to steal your house." She said this also when i tried to initial stop the arrangement, but clearly, she is. There are so many other instances what're she has taken advantage of me. She had defaulted on every part of the deal. She was supposed to be taking care of us, but j had to call my family every time for medical help. She tried to block thier access to me, but my family wouldn't quit. When i had covid, my actual daughter came to help at my request, and my daughter-in-law got angry and said, "I'm the one who is taking care of her." My daughter just ignored her and came down to check on us. Bruce and i hadn't eaten or taken our pills in three days and my breathing saturations were in the 70's. My daughter had to call my niece to take me to the ER so she could stay with Bruce. My daughters-in-law did nothing. I was in the hospital for 8 days, so Bruce needed 24 hour care. My daughter Stephanie, even though she had barely gotten out of the hospital herself, as well as other family members traded off to take care of Bruce 24/7. If just left in my daughter in laws care, we would've both died. She had lied and defaulted on everything and refuses to make it right when offered a simple settlement. I just want to be half owner like we agreed, in case anything happens to her, and when i die, i said she could still have the house. She won't relent. I changed my locks and added a deadbolt to the inside for for my safety. I don't feel safe with her and her family around. My psychological team were shocked when i discussed the details with them and contacted adult protective services on my behalf. When they contacted me, they said i needed attorney and that it would be very expensive. I have helped people regularly throughout my life, now i need help. Please donate. I have to take back what's mine and I'm done being taken advantage of and i have nothing left.