IF YOU BUILD IT THEY WILL COME

THEY SAY IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME


You find out how true this statement is when you have a recreational area like this one.

When the local pubs would close in the area, we would be invited to our home for an after hours party. The parties never got out of hand but we did have a few sleep-overs that were safer on the floor versus an automobile. We had a fun time and a lot of parties including water volleyball tournaments. (the reason for the net in the picture) By this time our company had grown in size and the rest of the basement was converted to offices (see pictures) the house was done in troweled plaster and stucco walls as were the walls in the basement. This gave the home a look similar to some I have visited in Mexico in the region near Merida and Progresso Mexico. They look very nice but if you rub against them, they will remove your skin. Enough talk about the walls in the house. Our children were busy having children and our employee’s were busy having children. Andrea Walker, the local Sheriffs daughter was one of our employee’s that had recently given birth. Desi and Leon were another that gave birth while employed and Suzy soon after she left our employment. We had grown our company to a total of 12 employees and we were very pleased. We took this from a company that did consulting for about 1000.00 a week to a company that paid 12 people from 20 to 70 thousand a year with bonuses and still showed a profit of 600,000 to 700,000 per year. Our children lived within a few hours of us and we got together frequently for family outings. Our children were also raised on the water as we had a 57 ft cruiser on the local river. As the children were growing up, we spent almost every weekend on the boat. As they left the home, this did not change. We still got together during the summer at the lake about 40 miles from our home. My wife and I enjoyed our family and our grand children. We would take tons of pictures, like when they caught their first fish, trying to bait the hooks, (I don’t know who squirmed the most the kids or the worms.). Pictures of the four year old as we built the pool. Here is one story that sticks in my mind. He decided to help shovel the sand into the bottom of the pool. We had hired local labor to shovel the 10 tons of sand into the pool. As they were carrying the sand, one made the comment that this sure as hell was heavy sand. As my grandson brought his shovel full he said Grandpa, this sure as hell is heavy sand isn’t it. Although not appropriate for a four year old, I remember that today as if it were yesterday. That was 14 years ago. My how time does pass. The children were in and out as they tried to get their lives under control. They would come home bring their furniture and store it in our barn. They would leave and sometimes the furniture would go with them and sometimes it would stay for a while longer. But they always came back home for the holidays. It was during the holidays that the cooking and baking took up most of the day the girls were in the kitchen with grandma. The boys were either playing pool, in the hot tub, drinking beer and telling stories or playing volleyball in the pool and telling stories. We had a very fun family and we all enjoyed each other when we got together. Enjoy the pictures.

Next how we came to be with Chase Bank

PICTURES OF THE ENTRANCE HALL

PICTURES OF THE FAMILY ROOM

PICTURES OF DINING ROOM

PICTURES OF THE BASEMENT OFFICES

PICTURES OF PLAY ROOM POOL TABLE

My Mother-In-Law is greatly missed

The project took about three years to complete. My wife, our children, my Mother-In-Law and myself completed the work. By this time, I was put on medical disability from Cat for heart and lung condition. I had previously undergone 4-vessel heart bypass surgery and before that I was involved in a chemical mishap at Cat. This was not that much of a concern at that time as the company we owned, Manito Machinery was doing very well. We needed to finish the basement into offices for our company now that the pool and water line problem seemed to be fixed. See the pictures of the finished product below. We finished the poolroom with solar panels in the roof to automatically heat the pool. We added a hot tub that held six people and redwood cabana, which housed the televisions, stereo, and refrigerator for cold drinks. We installed two baths for men and women with showers, sinks and stools. We added a nice pool table my wife had gotten me for Christmas gift. We also had an exercise and weight area to keep in shape. We included a play area for the grandkids that had their toys, small tables and chairs and bean bag seating. At the other end was the grownup area, full bar, tables full of dishes and server trays, food warmers and stereo speakers to drive the neighbors bonkers. Outside the east sliding door was a concrete patio that held our wooden outdoor furniture, our gas and charcoal grills. We were ready to party with the best of them.


The reason I think this increased the life span of my Mother-In-Law

Sharon had come to live with us in 1993 when she was diagnosed with lung cancer. At this time, the doctors gave her an 8 to 16 month expectancy of life. As we built this area of our home which she was a distinct part of in labor and decoration, we kept her busy on the days she felt good enough to be involved. We had her nail lumber, hold drywall, and paint the floors and screw in the decking on the floor. This was definitely the room that Sharon helped to build. A short story comes to mind. I was installing the rafters for the ceiling from the top of a ladder. I was using an air nail gun to put this together. Sharon was in the house while I was working. I missed the rafter bracket and nailed my hand to the rafter. I t hurt bad enough and startled me enough that I kicked the ladder out from under me. I was hanging on to the rafter for dear life and yelling for Sharon to help me. All the yelling finally got her attention and she came out of the house to see what the problem was. I asked her to first set up the ladder again and then to hand me a hammer. Once I was back on the ladder, I took the hammer and pulled the nail from my hand. I was free to move once more and very thankful for Sharon being there. We finished the project in April of 1996 and in the month of May 1996, my Mother-In-Law requested my wife take her to the funeral home so she could make her own arrangements. She did not want to leave that for others to do. My Mother-In-Law passed from this earth in June of 1996 in her bedroom in this home with my wife and myself holding her hands as she said her last goodbye. As the days and years went on, we did get rid of some of her clothes. They went to the people that needed them the most. The rest of her belongings we had left in her room as if she was coming back home. I don’t believe she ever left the house.  I think I could still hear her.  All of the kids blamed Grandma when something funny happened.  I know they all miss her.

Next the children and their children invade us.

We are Joined by my Mother-In-Law

As I mentioned in the last post, my mother-in-law was just diagnosed with lung cancer. We spent a lot of time in treatment and radiation therapy. It seemed that she had just about given up on life and had no drive or dedication to do anything. It was at this time we decided to try something different. We were in the process of trying to fix the original crack in the outdoor pool. This is the one I spoke of earlier. The pool was 20 foot by 40 foot long and they had poured concrete on all sides of the pool. Just sealing the crack did not fix the problem as we also found busted water pipes under the concrete. The pool was a diving pool (4 foot depth one end 10 ½ foot deep in the diving end ) we decided we had to remove all the concrete around the pool to fix the leaks into the basement. We gave my mother-in-law the opportunity to help with the destruction and new construction of the floor around the pool. She enjoyed getting outside and helping with the work. We brought in a jack hammer and busted up all the concrete around the pool. We then had to locate the broken pipes and repair these to stop the leaks. This had given her a reason to get out of bed each day. The prospect of being useful and needed gave her a new renewed energy. This lady that was having treatments for lung cancer with radiation and chemo therapy was difficult to keep up with. My wife and I decided to take this a step further and enclose the pool so it could be used year round. My mother-in-law helped me on the days my wife worked over at the hospital. Working together drew my wife and her mother closer together than they had ever been since my wife’s birth. We had a lot of fun and did a lot of work in the following 3 years it took to build this structure. This was definitely a spare time project that took a lot of spare time to complete. The pool that had the crack could not be fixed so it would not leak. We took that concrete pool and filled it with sand with the help of our 4 year old grandson and several others. We made the depth a uniform 5 feet. We then raised the outside by 2 concrete blocks and tied in new wooden plate frame. We had a special vinyl liner manufactured to fit the new measurements of the pool. This stopped the leaks into the basement. We then put up the walls and windows. We installed 16, 4 foot by 6 foot windows around the walls and two sets of 8 foot sliding doors for entrance from outside. The room measured a total of 48 feet wide by 98 feet long. This was a lot of extra work, but we got to spend a lot of family time together and we got to enjoy our grandchildren in their young years as they grow and learn.

The picture shown is only one of many from this part of the home. This picture will show some of the blood, sweat and tears that went into this.

A Review of Our Daily Life

When we moved into the home, there was myself, my wife, one of our daughters and her husband in the home. One of the pictures below of the fire place and family room shows most of the children's pictures. I was currently employed at Caterpillar but on strike, my wife was in nursing at the hospital. At this time, our company which was formed in 1984 had been hired as a consultant to a local fabrication and machine company. We were hired to increase sales of the company. During this time, we worked and helped design a lot of the no till products. We initially got the contract for production of the parts. The company produced about 90% of the no till products in the USA. When our company started the project, the local firm had 6 employees and little production equipment available. In the course of 8 months, the firm grew to 60 employees, several new production machines, robotic welding, and powder coat painting. We were able to deliver and exceed expectations for production. While I oversaw the on site operation, my wife was making the necessary financial and operating decisions at the office, and working full time at the local hospital. We still managed to sell machinery and machine tool accesories during our busiest time. This was in the early 1990's long before computeres were in every market and home. All of the contacts with customers at that time were either in person, or by phone or fax. All the information was then stored in file cabinets and on computer disks.  This is how we built our data base records.  This will become an important part of our problem with Chase Bank as these are the very records they destroyed, and cost us over $500,000.00 dollars.  This is the amount of money we had paid our employee's to make the phone contacts, and build the data base we used for sales.  But lets not get ahead of ourself.  It was right after we moved into the home that we found out my wife's mother had lung cancer.  My mother-in-law was a very stubborn person and would not ask for help from anyone.  She had lived in our home several years prior as our children were growing up.  She was definately a force to reckon with.  She got along well with my parents before they passed away, my father from a brain tumor and my mother, the year before we purchased this home, from a blood clot after heart surgery.  I only make mention of this because they lived in Toronto Canada with government run health insurance and when they got sick, we had to bring them to the states to get any treatment.  The doctors in Toronto had a six week wait to get a bed for a patient in the hospital.  We still had mothers china and silver that was left to us along with the antique china hutch.  Other than that, we had memories and pictures of our parents and our children doing fun things.  Rides at six flags, fishing in the lakes, boating on the river, Christmas baking of candies and cookies, school plays and sports competition.  These are some of the events that we had pictures and movies of.  Normal everyday memories that are associated with a home, parents, and raising children.

This picture is of one of the offices in the basement on the home.  The basement was big enough that we had a Haloween party that had 157 people and a five piece band and we still had room to party and have fun.

Picture of china hutch, china in the hutch and silver service on top of the hutch and pictures of grand children.

In the nex't section, I will explain how we used the home to give my mother-in-law 2 years of life more that the doctors had thought possible.

IN THE BEGINNING (NO CHASE BANK)

In the beginning, around 1990 My Wife and I purchased this home from a local bank. The home having been built by a local contractor was well constructed. The contractor had seen rough times as a result of the 1980's local ecomony. We purchased the home and its faults. The inground pool had froze and cracked the bottom concrete. The water was draining into the basement and flooding the basement. The walls had to be replaced along with the carpet on the floors, the heat, that air system and the water heaters. We moved into the home after repiars to the basement were completed. The home was around 6000 square feet of space on 2 acres of land. The space was comprised of 6 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, nursery, formal living room, formal dining room, den, family room, kitchen, and breakfast room. We realy needed the space as we had seven children, 3 boys, 4 girls, and when all were home, the house was full. The basement had been turned into offices for our business. During the construction course, the pool bottom was never repaired quite right and we got a pool of water across the basement floor in the heavy rains. This was something we would have to deal with down the road.

Pictures of the home are attached for your viewing. The first picture is showing most of our childrens photo's and part of the family room.

Chase Bank commits Financial Murder of Female

Follow along with us as we unfold the story of Chase Bank and Bank One and the illegal foreclosure that they did to a middle age, middle class, mother of seven, small business owner and major bread winner. Not only did they foreclose a mortgage they did not own, they trampled the constitutional rights of the people involved. Follow along with us as we lead you over the last 10 years of our nightmare. We will share with you our good times, our bad times, our deaths, and the new births that have given us hope. We will show how Chase Bank created and administered a fraud on the court system, conspired to commit perjury, conversion, and racketeering. We will prove that Chase Bank and their partners in crime stole and removed the personal property belonging to this family without any court document that gave them this right. Can you say violation of constitution. We would encourage any and all of the readers with a similar or like story to add that to the comment section of the blog. By adding these, all people will understand that this financial institution will walk all over your rights for a penny. Be afraid, be very afraid of this institution they will steal from you and bury you and your rights before you know it.