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by Willard Michlin
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and were ready to sue him.
As terrible as this sounds, Jonathan was the 3rd person that I have met in the last 10 years that has been stung by this scam. I cried. I know that at least $500,000 was sent. Jonathan thinks he sent closer to $1 Million. Jonathan decided that it was fate that sent me to him. He may be right. By the way my company name is Kismet Real Estate Investments, Inc. Kismet means Fate, Destiny, Karma, etc in Turkish, Indian, and Arabic. Time was very short, we had work to do and fast.
His wife knew nothing of what was happening, and I had to get Jonathan to tell her that they had gone from being millionaires to destitute in one conversation. Jonathan told his wife the truth. She forgave him. (Now that's love.) Her one concern was that she didn't want to loose her home. We were but a few weeks away from the creditors coming down on his business and her mortgage free house. In one clean swallow, they would put her into bankruptcy, a one-bedroom apartment and living on social security, which would have actually killed her. How much can one take at that age?
I went to work. First I promised Janet that no one would take her house away from her. She needed to trust ME, a total stranger, to not put the nail in the coffin. I do not know if I could have made the decision she had to make. We put her house in an irrevocable trust for her family when she died. That meant she had to give up ownership of her house, to me, a total stranger, in order to continue to live in it the rest of her life. Next we sold his two buildings to an investor who would work with us. The loans on the two buildings were equal to t |
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