Posted on 10/05/2022 4:52:17 PM PDT by simpson96
Grandkids are supposed to steal your heart — not your house.
A Brooklyn woman allegedly hijacked her grandmother’s longtime home by forging the elder’s signature on a fake deed and filing it with the city — then took out a $399,000 mortgage on the property, according to a $5 million lawsuit.
Leonita Arbuckle, 77, bought her two-story, multi-family Flatbush house with her husband Selwyn in 1972 for $31,650, dutifully paying off the mortgage in 1995.
But the retired nurse got a letter in May claiming the property had been transferred to her granddaughter, Jaishree Arbuckle-Pierre, for $1, the grandmother charges in her Brooklyn Supreme Court lawsuit.
“You don’t expect that from your kids,” she told The Post.
Arbuckle says she never gave her home to the younger woman, who was raised and lived in the home until she graduated from high school in 2004, according to court papers.
The apparently ungrateful granddaughter has a history of fraud, legal records show.
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Despite it all, Arbuckle said she’s not willing to let the alleged transgressions destroy their relationship.
“How mad could I be? It’s done,” she said, noting that Arbuckle-Pierre’s teen son still lives with her in the home.
“He doesn’t know we’re threatened to go live out on the street,” she said.
She’s fighting to regain ownership of her home, but won’t give up on her granddaughter either.
“I’m not going to destroy my relationship … she’s going to be my granddaughter til the day she die,” Arbuckle said.
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Only the lawyers are going to win in this case. Their fees alone will gobble up that house and then some.
I’m so sorry he had to experience that.
Right before my mom’s dad died my father pulled some crud maliciously redirecting city and state taxes on a property that had her scramble to not loose it. In the short term she managed to hold on but in the long it contributed to losing the property and the associated income.
That property was being used to support my handicapped sister’s expenses.
My granddad was heartbroken that he would be that vindictive and uncaring.
With the Lord the only way that the “books” aren’t opened and folk’s every deed revealed is if you are not in that judgment at all.
The one important question not answered, Where did the $400,000 go and for what? How did she even get a loan on the property?????/
lets just hope by forgiving something of this level, the “Next time” you’re alive to react any way at all...
What gamma means is that she will be my grand daughter until the day she dies. You have to understand Ebonics grammar.
I be
You be
He/she/it be
We be
You be (Plural)
They be
Indeed it’s shown on the streets every day.
My dad, too. My sibs and I thought it was so hard when we were kids; but I'm grateful every day of my life now that he was a straight, straight, straight, straight arrow. He also was orphaned rather young, and had to make his own way in the world. Saint Daddy.
You are blessed. The fact that you appreciate him means he was blessed to have you, too.
Thanks so much. Miss him every day.
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