I hired Shannon Jones to represent my interest in my mom's estate 3 years ago, and since I have a felony on my record I was told that I couldn't be the fiduciary, so Shannon brings in this "professional" she loves to call this woman that exercises no fiduciary responsibilities to the estate that she represents. My moms house was rushed to sale for $110,000 under its county assessed tax value, listed as cash only sale and sold within 24 hours to what I am certain was a prearranged buyer. A fake invoice for a reputable property assessment company called T&G Appraisals for $1000 was filed in court to be paid, but the appraisal that they produced wasn't done by T&G, but by an obscure Lakewood real-estate company that barely exists. The bogus appraisal compared my moms Graham property to two remote undeveloped properties in Eatonville even though houses had sold on either side of the same street as my moms for $606,000 and $789,000 in 2020. At the very end of the appraisal the appraiser whom I discovered since then isn't even licensed to do appraisals has a one sentence opinion "In his opinion the property is a liability and should be sold for between $350,000-$375,000. So our ringer brought in by Miss Jones lists the house for $345,000 even though the county assesses the same property as being worth $455,000 for tax purposes. Without talking to anyone in the family because Miss Jones slipped that notice in when she filed the petition for me to have an outside administrator appointed. So Miss Jones had been planning this all along. She never had my or my moms interests at heart at all and certainly neither does her ringer of an administrator. I wonder how many other grieving families this woman has taken advantage of with the fake property assessment showing the house being worth a substantial amount less than what it actually is and then listing it with stipulations that make it impossible to even make an offer on unless you have the asking cash price which ofcourse their prearranged buyer did, and made his offer the first 24 hours. The adminiistrator was even so kind as to offer to pick up the $34,000 in closing sosts at the estates expense after selling the property $110,000 under valued. On top of that I had a 12x16 two story shed that cost $10,000 in materials alone on the property to store my moms things in while we rebuilt the floor trusses that had dwindled with age since they didnt make treated lumber in 1902 when the house was originally built. We rebuilt the livingroom floor in a day with new treated floor joists, and my building was still there. I had told Miss Jones about the building when I thought she was representing me and had emailed and written letters to both of them inquiring about my building and when could I pick it up to no avail. At one point Miss Jones responded in an email stating "That would be a good question for me to ask my attorney." Knowing that I didn't have one that IM had spent the only money I had hiring her and paying for the handwriting expert that analyzed and testified that the signature on the will my brother produced was not my moms. Now I have been 5 months trying to file myself to get the two of them away from the estate and intend on suing them both for professional malpractice. All that Miss Jones is interested in is her personal enrichment and she has no morals or compunctions about stealing them from unwitting heirs to an estate that they may know nothing about but what Miss Jones chooses to tell them with her fake assessments and invoices. In the one motion these two women cut my moms estate value by 1/3rd, and added to that the negligence of waiting to do any form of an incventory until two years after the house and property were sold resulting in more of the assets being lost than accounted for. Then they have sat on the modest house sale money drawing $22,000 in fees annually for Campbell/Barnett alone even though the only legal actions taken at all for almost a year and a hald had been Motions to pay fees and expenses (pay themselves for paying themselves). So far i keep messing up the court procedure, but one of these times I will get it right and then I will finally get these womens hooks out of my brothers and my inheritance. Incidentally, the house was remodeled immediataly upon sale hence the hury for them to llst it in June before have done any inventory of anything else on the property. No estate sale. Just paid a guy named Pedro "no Company name listed on the incvoice. Simply the one word name Pedro almost $10,000 to throw everything that was at the ranch into 5 large dumpsters. The house is now listed for $810,000 a year later with a remodel. Something that Miss Jones and her ringer could have done if the exercised any fiduciary respo9nsability toward the estate or its heirs at all beacause there was $47,000 in my moms checking account when they Swore aned oath of fiduciary responsability to the estate. Case #21-4-01093-7. read more
