Legally Blind Siblings Duped By Relative Into Signing Home Mortgage Now Face Foreclosure

In Boston, Massachusetts, The Bay State Banner reports:

• Hildreth Brewington, 69, and his sister Vanita Brewington, 59, both of whom are legally blind, have lived in a two-family home near Codman Square since they bought the property 14 years ago. In 2007 they found out their home was in foreclosure—even though they sent in monthly mortgage payments. To their knowledge, they had never missed a payment.

• Baffled at first, they pieced together the puzzle. They had been deceived two years earlier by another family member into signing papers for a second mortgage on the house. Unaware that the monthly mortgage bill had shot up from $1,000 to $2,100 — notices from the bank were sent to the niece’s house — the Brewingtons had continued making their accustomed payments. “We were paying the $1,000 and [the bank] was accepting it,” said Hildreth Brewington. “Then in April [2007] they sent it back, because they were planning on foreclosing on us.”

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• The Brewingtons have little hope of recovering any money from the relative that initiated the second-mortgage process. She spent the loan money “living high off the hog,” according to Brewington, and has since lost her own house to foreclosure.

For the story, see Protest to support Dot family's foreclosure fight. DeedContraTheft