Who will my brother, the con artist, scam next?

@writersedge (22563)
United States
October 18, 2012 5:53am CST
I have 3 brothers. Two are honest. 1 is not. He had a friend pay his taxes. He told him he could have property from another road. So the guy started to clear that property. That proptery is part of my deceased parents' estate. No one owns it yet. This same brother refused to sign so my other brother, B could get it. So the execter of the will was called. This person threw him off the property. Now my brother, A is blaming B because he called the executer. I have land from my parents. A has land from my parents. B got shafted because I signed off on the property. My brother's L and B signed. But A, who said he would sign didn't sign. So the executer called me to ask why he said he would sign and then didn't. I didn't know why he changed his mind. Later on, I learned of the scam. Now A has all his friends against B. The land is supposed to either be sold and all the money divided amoung the 4 children or given to one of the children. Since, I, L and A all have property from my parents, I thought it was B's turn to get property. Since that guy didn't get any property, he stopped paying my brother A's taxes. So now who will he scam to pay the taxes? People are guessing his room mate. There is no reason why my brother can't pay the taxes. He has two rental properties and an industrial garage that he rents out. He uses the money for alcohol and drugs instead of paying for taxes and insurance. He lied to me. He told me he borrows money then he pays the person off. I didn't call him a liar in front of his friends and while he was drinking because he would explode. Then I became curious. I looked online. All our taxes are online. He's behind from last year, too. It used to be 3 years behind before you could loose your home. But during the recession, they need money, so I think that changed. It says on the county site that you can loose your property if you didn't pay 2011 and before. He is two years behind and has two liens. It comes to $5,000. In an area where we pay one to two thousand dollars for the taxes, he got creamed by the liens, too. He also has a trust fund thru the estate. He could ask the executer/representative payee of the trust fund to pay the taxes. Until he had liens against the property, he could have cut down trees and paid the taxes that way. So I printed the info out and sent it to him. You can't lie to a person when the information is online. He can't borrow from that person any more anyway. That person knows he'll get nothing for his money. I was hoping he'd grow up. There are 5 or 6 other people living in trailers on his property who could loose their homes. Various people have told me, don't worry, he won't loose the land. He'll just scam someone else. I'm not worried about him. He deserves whatever he gets. I'm concerned about the people who pay him rent and think they have somewhere to live. Then they could suddenly get evicted. You pay rent, ususally the landlord pays the taxes with the rent money. One of the people on his property is emotionally disturbed. This could really send her over the edge and she's been doing well for a long time. The guy he scammed was his best friend. Not any more. He uses people and then throws them away. Do you have a member of your family who scam's people? Have you ever been scammed? Was the scammer an alcholic-drug addict? What was the scam?
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@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
18 Oct 12
Wow, I understand keeping their "real" names private, but I think a couple times I got lost.. But I can relate to those who are scam artists. Though not blood related, my ex-brother in law had scammed us when we had a water leak under the house that we didn't know about until the washing machine started going through the floor. (My husband's excuse was, since the machine was in the bathroom, the floor was getting soft from the kids taking a bath.) Anyways, we only got enough for a small repair and maybe the replacement of the floor, but my brother in law came in, and did a lot more and had my husband borrow from our home to do more than needed. Well it was an improvement, instead of an energy sucking sliding door in our bedroom, he torn that down and replaced it with a better door, he replaced all our windows, (though the last 2-3 he had to be coaxed into installing) he closed in our back porch, not only giving us extra storage, but another insulation against cold weather. He raised the roof a little, (our roof was practically flat) and re-roofed it. But here is the kicker...He had his men tear off the shake shingles from our house and suddenly ran out of money. Though he just bought a new minivan, we couldn't borrow any more money. So here we are, a house with nothing on it, cold weather coming in, and neighbors complaining, and my brother in law just stopped showing up. I didn't know my sister was clueless on what her husband did, so I was angry with her, but I loved my nieces and nephews and didn't want to cause strife. So I said nothing. Of course when my sister left him, that is when I find out that she didn't know and that he had also ripped off other people, including his pastor. So, between what my ex-brother in law did and a bad used car dealers, two professions that creeps up and down my spine are constructions workers and car salesmen...
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
18 Oct 12
If my brother B had fixed it, you'd have a great job done. If my brother A helped with it, you'd be scammed worse. He'd take the money, do nothing and claim my brother B was supposed to be doing the work. Meanwhile, B wouldn't even know what was going on. Sorry you got ripped off. I had someone do my bathroom and the pipe fell out while I was taking a bath in a trailer I owned. I went ouside and all the suds and water were sitting on the ground.
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• United States
18 Oct 12
LOL, well then, in that case, I want brother B... Well, I figure he got his when my sister left him. Now she is remarried and though he remarried, it didn't turn out and his health isn't as good. I am a strong believer in how we treat others and is we will be treated. Not that we are going to be treated right all the time, but at least if we are, we can be assured it isn't because we treated someone else bad...Plus, by treating others right, we get the benefits of many blessings..:D
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
18 Oct 12
What goes around comes around. You get back what you give. Lots of cliches here, but there is a reason why there are so many. People get treated well and sometimes badly.