LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – A Southern Nevada household shared their devastating story with 8 Information Now after they stated a scammer pressured their aged father to lose his house.
“We don’t understand what happened,” Priscilla Lopez-Vargas stated.
Rodrigo Vargas-Guerra was trying to decrease his mortgage cost and met a person at church who stated he may assist. (Priscilla Lopez-Vargas)
Lopez-Vargas shared the nightmare she and her household have handled since their father fell sufferer to a life-altering rip-off.
She advised 8 Information Now it began a number of years in the past when Rodrigo Vargas-Guerra was trying to decrease his mortgage cost and met a person at church who stated he may assist.
“He said he was an attorney, that he was going to help him with the house,” she defined. “And get a loan modification.”
Lopez-Vargas stated that the person then satisfied her father to ship him 1000’s of {dollars} and signal a quitclaim deed to switch the home out of his identify.
“He bought the house for his kids,” Lopez-Vargas stated. “And for somebody to just come and take it for zero dollars.”
“He contracted him to help him,” Lopez-Vargas stated, translating for her father. “Not to take his home away.”
Since then, Lopez-Vargas and her sisters have filed police stories and a civil lawsuit. The person concerned now has a warrant out for his arrest.
“We want justice. We want to live a life now that doesn’t depend on us trying to be detectives, attorneys,” Lopez-Vargas stated. “We just want to live our lives.”
They’ve additionally tried their hardest to maintain Vargas-Guerra in his house, however as a result of authorized and monetary challenges, the worst occurred.
“Last week they foreclosed on my father’s home,” Lopez-Vargas stated.
After the foreclosures, the house was then offered off in an public sale.
“It’s been so hard, it’s been so hard,” Lopez-Vargas stated by way of tears. The ache that he is in, the stress, the despair, it is consuming my father alive.”
It is a state of affairs nobody desires to think about, however they hope their story, regardless of the way it ends, will cease this from occurring to another person.
“We need to bring awareness to this case,” Lopez-Vargas concluded.
Vargas-Guerra continues to be within the house, however the brand new homeowners may evict him any day, in line with the household.
As for the person behind the rip-off, paperwork present the case in opposition to him continues to be open and the household believes he has a historical past of doing the identical factor in different states.
The household has began a GoFundMe to help Vargas-Guerra. For extra data, click on HERE.
