Mother is a 69 year old disabled senior. She has lived at the property for 42 years and due to her disability and financial situation in the past 5 years, ended up in forclosure. The property recently sold at sheriff sale. A out of town lawyer (best option and price at the time) was hired to handle the ejectment action defense so that my mother will have 6-8 months to finalize new housing options which have been difficult to find for her up to this point without long waiting lists for senior housing. The new deed holder has not yet filed for ejectment so this lawyer is waiting to file the response until that is done. He has advised that she is the legal resident still and to just wait for the ejectment at this point. The new deed holder has been advised of the situation but has refused to respond and instead has recently begun attempting a "self help" eviction instead of going through the courts. She has had some mail sent there, left notes on the doors and now recently has shut the utilities off to the residence. We managed to get the electric back on but the water company will not turn the water back on and said only the deed holder can do so. The out of town lawyer said this is highly illegal and a motion has to be filed to turn the water back on and since he is not local, recommended finding a local lawyer to do this. So far, after numerous emails and phone calls, no local lawyer has shown any interest in helping out with this matter. One even said to my mother "well if the new deed holder decided to shut off utilties then thats what she did". What are our options? Can one of us file this motion for her or does a lawyer have to do this?