Word: arriaga
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Elderly residents are sometimes the target of home-repair scams. "These people are cash poor but real estate rich," says Frederick Arriaga, a lawyer with Legal Aid in New York. Their houses, however, may be old and in need of repair. One three-story row house in Brooklyn, N.Y., was bought for $25,000 in 1968 by Warren Singleton, a safety officer at a public school, and his wife Minnie, a health-care assistant. They hoped it would yield enough rental income to support their retirement. After bad tenants just about wrecked the two top floors, Minnie responded...