Thursday, July 24, 2008

The Joys of Home Pawn-ership

From the Boston Herald: Taunton woman commits suicide as home foreclosed.

TAUNTON - A 53-year-old wife and mother fatally shot herself soon after faxing a letter to her mortgage company saying that by the time they foreclosed on her house that day, she would be dead.

O’Berg also said a suicide note found next to Balderrama told her husband, John, and 24-year-old son to "take the (life) insurance money and pay for the house."


You weren't exactly the sharpest tool in the tool shed, were you, darling?

Life insurance doesn't pay off in case of suicide. Perhaps you should've read those documents just like you should've read the mortgage documents.

Police in Taunton said Carlene Balderrama used her husband’s high-powered rifle to kill herself Tuesday afternoon, after faxing the letter at 2:30 p.m.

Police did not immediately release the name of the mortgage company. O’Berg said Balderrama’s fax read, in part, "By the time you foreclose on my house I’ll be dead."


Aren't the joys of home ownership simply too delightful for words?

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