Elderly, fixed-income people had no option but to sell and relocate.

I think the real crime here is that families no longer take care of their elderly.

My non-RE side hustle is specialized private in home elder care.

I split time for work in New York and Delray Beach area, and have had many conversations with elderly folks that they are actually renting retirement home as opposed to buying.

When I was moving many of the elderly mostly Polish people in this neighborhood were slowly selling. 

@Sam Elder - Hey!

Elderly need Cash Flow, younger folks who are working, can wait for appreciation as long as the rent covers expenses.

Good luck,, If the man used a credit card without authorization, then call the police, even if it was awhile ago, file a report, get print out of the credit card charges for the report, and notify the credit card company,  This happened to me basically, a guy took my elderly mom's card, he had done some work in the house,, 2K worth of charges, I filed report with police, notified credit card company, and the credit card company took off the charges and police / card company worked out payment plan with the offender,, he was also a former inmate..  

NJ not so sure but NJ had a lot of cases.Then when you dive into the data for NYC, you notice that Covid was harsh on 1) Elderly people 2) People with preexisting conditions 3) Obese people 4) Low Income people.

The plumbing on both sides and foundation on each side need fixing. here are the facts-I purchased one side of duplex-elderly couple purchased other half-i paid 10k for foundation repairs-they could'nt afford to pay for repairs-I redid entire house inside cosmetics to update and renovate.