Parent (70) Sold Their House To Give Money To Romance Scammer

location: IL.

I dont know where to go with all of this information that I just received. I thought to ask this sub about a related issue months ago but need more urgent advice and what to even ask a lawyer when I speak with mine tomorrow. So heres alot of info to sift through. Throwaway account and vagueness for reasons.

Basically my parents divorced a few years ago. One of them was absolutely mentally ill and refused to admit it. Their therapist was not good and made them fall into the victim mentality which further eroded their relationship. What we suspect they have is officially undiagnosed. My decent parent had recently gotten inheritance in the form of a family business and took money out of that to give to crazy one, who also bullied decent parent into giving WAY more spousal support than they can afford. The house was in Crazy parents name. They have been living in disgusting conditions since.

A few years ago Crazy got involved in a romance scam. Kids all told them it was a scammer but of course didnt believe us. Continued to ask for more money and had bills in their name bouncing and CCing to Decent parent. Crazy got more and more forgetful and honestly doesnt know what the hell theyre doing anymore but continued to shun reality and fall for romance scam. It finally came out today that they sold their house at 60% value to a housing group. Theyve been renting it back and went to court last month to settle a move-out date of a few days from now due to nonpayment of rent.

So I dont know what to do. My parent is going to be homeless. Theres alot of stuff in that house that I want but dont have the time to get it out. Crazy is in our opinion not capable of making their own decisions for years, and honestly i dont believe they are capable of logical thinking. They cant take care of themselves, vouched for by anyone who has been in their house. Im not in a financial position to buy back the house, but maybe cover the back rent plus one or two to get the stuff settled. I obviously need more time to do it. They sure as shit arent going to move in with me or any family as they burned those bridges years ago.

They are still talking to scammers, just not the one who is responsible for getting well over 100K in the form of gift cards and wire transfers. My thought was months ago to get them commited due to other reasons. I have been dealing with a phone company that the scammers infilatrated to buy phones off the account racking up over 10k in charges and sending it to the phones to their country. The phone company reps recommended mental health care as theres quite a bit more to the story, but not all completely relevant to housing. This is just getting a bit long of a post.

My assumption was admitted them for psychiatric care. Theyve needed it for years in my opinion but it was hard to make that decision unanimously with family and we just didnt want to get involved with Crazys circus anymore. Were all done. I dont know how much that will really solve though with the housing situation.

They get a small amount from SS payments. No retirement to count on as the inherited business was meant to be my parents unofficial "retirement" money but got split in divorce. (Business was completely in decents name, not shared marital). Crazy is technically disabled, but no other payments. Crazy also inherited money from dead parent that they gave away before could be split with their sibilings.

Its just all messed up.