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“My cousin (still a 12-year-old child at this point) lost both her parents and the family had to help her sell her parental house. Long story short, one of my aunts secretly sold the house without telling anyone and kept the profit ($250K) for herself.”
“Everyone thought the house was still up for sale until the real estate agent informed my cousin’s actual guardian (a different aunt) that my other aunt had sold the house and he thought it was sketchy.
Good news though — my aunt was sued. [She] had to pay everything back and the 250K was directly deposited into my cousin’s bank account. And my aunt received an additional 50k fine she had to pay my cousin and guardian aunt for emotional damage. We do not speak about this aunt anymore.
How it was even possible in the first place … They had secret house viewings, found a buyer, had the new buyers sign forged papers, my evil aunt forged [the other aunt’s] signature, had the new buyers deposit the money directly to their bank account, gave the new buyers the green light to move in, went to the real estate agent and said ‘we don’t need you anymore, we already sold it, and here you see [other aunt] signed as well.’
That is where the real estate agent thought it was sketchy and thought to call [the other aunt] to ‘thank her for the collaboration and wish her well now that it is sold.’
… My evil aunt said she needed some money and her husband was good with finances, so ‘they could borrow the money, whilst my uncle would borrow the rest of the money, turn it into stock, and make profit to pay the borrowed money back’. So the judge asked how much profit they intended to make before telling anyone about their scheme…
‘Well if you think making 50k in profit was worth stealing and lying to a 12yo orphaned niece of yours, that is what you will pay her in extra.’
They never actual made any profit due to the short time period. But the family took over his investment plan, secured part of my cousin’s inheritance, and used a smaller part of her inheritance to invest so that my cousin could have extra passive income for the rest of her life.”
—u/locococomokko
Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahmarder/people-are-sharing-the-reasons-they-cut-off-family-members
