Where to start? My wife says I need to write a book and call it “I’m just the notary”. I received an assignment for a Reverse signing across town and by the time I got off of the phone with the signer to confirm the appt. I was suspicious. He was 93 and very talkative. At the signing, it was obvious that he was smitten with his 37 yr. old fiancée from Ireland, and he let me know she was the reason he needed to cash in on the last 80,000 of his home’s equity. (It was his 3rd Heloc) Here are the Cliffsnotes: In 2019 he was texted by the Irish lass because she had been told he was a nice man and easy to talk to. Within a few weeks they were engaged. Her father was giving her a dowery of 5,000 carats of diamonds that she wanted him to have for safekeeping until the happy day. Her family attorney was tasked with delivering said diamonds to his house here in the US, but for some reason ended up selling them to a diplomat from Quatar for 22.5 million dollars (he had a photo of a box of money with his name in large letters on it). However the crooked lawyer only made it as far as Atlanta where he deposited the boxes of money in a storage facility and left without paying the storage rental which had now ballooned to $80,000. And so, on and on it went. He’s telling me all this as we’re going through the docs and me telling him where to sign. Just as I am deciding that I can’t conscientiously go through with the signing, there’s a knock on the door. Two sheriff’s deputies come in. They make weekly welfare checks on the gentleman and had seen my car in his driveway. They are also aware of his situation with the woman, and wanted to know why I was there, The man is hard of hearing and while one deputy was chatting with him the other was giving me the 3rd degree, asking: “Why do you want him to have this money?” and “Don’t you know what he’s going to do with it?” (Hence, the name of the book). Evidently, the man was already in for over a million dollars having sold several other properties he owned and sending her checks. Sadly, he thought he was protected because he had taken screen shots of every check he had sent. During the entire 5 year period, they had never talked on the phone. Only texts and emails) I ended up excusing myself, fibbing that we were done. (The deputy advised me against telling him I wasn’t going to complete the signing because “he has a temper and keeps a loaded gun under his cushion”. Surprisingly the Signing company was very understanding and ended up paying my entire fee, which I had been fully prepared to write off. Despite the efforts of the Sherrif’s Dept., his children, and even the FBI getting involved, he’s convinced this “woman” loves him. I was told that the authorities couldn’t force him not to send her money because he was competent in every other way. He even rides his motorcycle across country. But, they said if he succeeds in getting the next person to give him his Reverse Morgage he’ll be living on the street.
OMG!! If he’s belieivng all that mularky, he certainly is NOT competent. You’d think the courts would’ve gotten involved by now and appointed a guardian.
What state is this for?
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TN. Those were my thoughts. But evidently, things like that are happening all the time.
Wow…just wow…well handled, Sir.
Nicely handled! Red flags all over the place here. I hope and pray this man has a family member or good friend that would step in and protect this man and his assets in the future.