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Sadly, undoing the scam requires going to court. "The person who forged the deed is now the property owner," real estate attorney Arash Sadat explained to ABC7 Eyewitness News. "So, for you to get ...
Some real-estate scammers operate by transferring a home's deed away from its rightful owners. The owner of a $137.5 million LA mansion says they're a victim of deed fraud and can't sell it.
It's generally possible to transfer ownership of a house using a quitclaim deed or by preparing a new deed and filing it with the relevant authorities, with particular requirements varying by state.
A fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer is the transfer of property to another party to prevent, hinder, or delay the collection of a debt owed by or incumbent on the party making the transfer, sometimes by rendering the transferring party insolvent. [1]
With other kinds of property, the first buyer would be the owner of the property, and later owners would have no interest in the property and would instead have a cause of action against the original seller for fraud. With real property, however, the first buyer is not necessarily the owner, depending on the kind of statute under which the ...
A deed of trust is not used to transfer property directly. It is commonly used in some states — California, for example — to transfer title to land to a “trustee”, usually a trust or title company, which holds the title as security ("in escrow") for a loan. When the loan is paid off, title is transferred to the borrower by recording a ...
Green Mirage scammers have impersonated more than 400 mortgage institutions and caused hundreds of thousands of dollars of losses to deceived homeowners, many of whom only learn of the fraud when ...
An action to quiet title is a lawsuit brought in a court having jurisdiction over property disputes, in order to establish a party's title to real property, or personal property having a title, of against anyone and everyone, and thus "quiet" any challenges or claims to the title.