I don’t know what her mortgage or car payment were per month or how long the foreclosure proceedings took or whether or not anyone tried to reposes the automobile when payments stopped. But assuming she had enough money in her account with automatic withdrawals to cover 5 years, she must have been a fairly wealthy woman.
If she still has a lot of money left,she will have some new found ‘friends’ now.
or she got a pension or other monthly payment that covered them until the bill amounts became more than the payment and the account bottomed out.
Some people don’t have car payments or morgages. Maybe all she had was an electricity bill and a water bill and that is the reason her money in the bank held out so long.