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I Was Very Tired

posted 8 years ago by SN51431
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So, I think my level of concentration was impaired when I watched the film and therefore I was not able to follow the plot very well.

I understand part of the scam was going into the foreclosed homes and taking the appliances to sell them.... but I got lost in the subplot about the forgery.

Were many of the evictions illegal because they were initiated based on judges' forgeries??

Please only reply if you seriously want to help me understand the plot.... all insults like calling me "stupid" will be ignored.

[–] IndianaGuy 8 years ago

I will chime in (also at the risk of being called "stupid") with similar questions. Isn't buying up foreclosed properties and flipping them for profit actually legal? Sleazy, yes, but legal? Other than the scam with the appliances and AC units, and the forged document, everything Carver did was perfectly legal, right? It seems he had insider information on what properties to snatch up, maybe he was paying off someone at the courthouse (this is fairly obvious at one point). So... that was probably illegal as well, but besides that ... our laws permit this guy's business model?

[–] SN51431 8 years ago

Yes, buying the properties and flipping them is legal, but I got lost in the whole forgery scheme. Thanks for replying.

[–] IndianaGuy 8 years ago

My understanding (somewhat vague also) of that was if they didn't file the paperwork by a certain deadline, they'd lose the 100 homes, but there was one signature missing (the person was unavailable to sign, on vacation perhaps) so Carver just forged the name. I think it was a one-time thing forgery-wise, but for Nash it was a turning point.