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Local Woman, Friends Protest Eviction

POSTED: 5:27 pm EDT July 22, 2008
UPDATED: 6:49 pm EDT July 22, 2008

A protest was held Tuesday afternoon for one local 72-year-old woman who is about to lose her home to foreclosure.

Friends of Rubie Curl-Pinkins protested outside Bank of America’s offices in downtown Detroit, claiming Countrywide and the law firm Trott and Trott are evicting her instead of accepting her payments.

Forty-five years ago, Curl-Pinkins moved to a two-story home on Holden Street in Detroit, only a few blocks from the Motown Museum.

It was in that house that she lived with her husband and five children, and worked for 29 years at Henry Ford Hospital.

She currently lives with her daughter who suffers from congestive heart failure and is on oxygen.

Curl-Pinkins said she was lured into a predatory loan in exchange for a mortgage on her paid-off home. This, in addition to mounting medical bills between her daughter and herself, caused her to fall behind on payments.

There is paperwork to prove that Curl-Pinkins has been in and out of court with the bank and its foreclosure attorneys, Trott and Trott.

She obtained a reverse mortgage on the last day before foreclosure, but because of paperwork issues, the bank still foreclosed.

Curl-Pinkins said after review, the bank still could have accepted the $43,000 as payment, but refused to.

Curl-Pinkins said she was intimidated and under pressure from the attorneys, and ended up signing a consent judgment – one that ordering her to be out of her house by July 25.

"It's just hard," said Curl-Pinkins. "I don't know what to say except that I hope God will touch their hearts and they'll accept the money, we have it all."



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