I have a juicy one about my husband's mother. She's a hard-core pioneer for over 20 years. She divorced my husband's dad and called herself a "widow" for years to get favors from everyone. When my husband was 15 she pulled him out of school and made him get a job so she could pioneer. The whole time she was collecting child support too! When he turned 18 she came up with a scheme to buy a mobile home where they could live until armageddon. But she had terrible credit so no one would finance it.
So she bought one with the owner carrying the note. She put my husband's name on the note but told my husband his name was only going on the deed in case she died. He was so young and didn't have a clue he was being conned into being a co-signor. For years she was late on the payments even though my husband would give her the money, not caring about her young son's credit or anything.
Then I came along and figured out the whole con, having been a homeowner myself in the past.
When my husband and I got married he moved out and she couldn't afford to live there alone so she moved out and rented it out. She was collecting the money for the rent and telling everybody that the renters weren't paying. Then she wasn't paying the mortgage and telling the owners of the mobile that she was dirt broke. They had no clue that she had moved out and had it rented out. They were very nice and patient people who were ripped off of more than one year's worth of mortgage payments.
One day the floor caved in and we found out she hadn't been paying the homeowners insurance either. I finally convinced my husband to put the home on the market and he sold it out from under her. She tried every scheme imaginable to prevent the sale by scaring away prospective buyers and telling them it wasn't for sale. But in the end we won.
She got her initial $5000 back but she spread the rumor that she lost all her money because of the cruelty of her own son.
I got fed up with the situation and wrote a six page letter to her presiding overseer accusing her of being a "greedy person" and asked them to discipline her. The reply was that it was "none of their business or MY business." They said it was between my husband and his mother and I as a wife had NOTHING to do with it.
But it had been these same elders business to counsel my husband not to marry me in the first place. But now they felt it was none of their business to counsel her to pay her debts and be honest about it. I even told them she hadn't payed her taxes in years. They still said that her finances were her own business. So I asked them if she had stuck a quarter in a slot machine if it would have been their business then? They said "yes."
Hypocrites!
