Tampabay: Sale, or foregone foreclosure?

Tampabay: Sale, or foregone foreclosure?

They were behind on their mortgage payments. He said he was offering them a way out of trouble. But then he evicted them and made big profits. And they say that was his plan all along.

Mary Ella Savage sat down at her dining room table one December day and sold her St. Petersburg home to a stranger for the price of a movie ticket.

She was desperate, just like the others.