LAKELAND, Fla. — Many Florida homeowners are bombarded with ads, phone calls, and mail from wholesale real estate investors offering to buy their homes quickly for cash.
I-Team investigator Adam Walser is hearing from a 91-year-old Lakeland woman who signed a contract to sell her home which she says she did not understand and is now being sued.
She may have to move out of her home next month if she loses in court.
“I have a check. Some people send me their check,” said Fidela Rodriguez, who turned 91 on September 11th.
She pointed to her kitchen table, which is covered with marketing materials that look like handwritten checks from wholesale real estate investors.
Some of the amounts written on the solicitations are more than $200,000.
“I don’t believe it,” Rodriguez said.
Fidela already has a contract to sell her home, which she signed two years ago, but she’s trying to get out of it.
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