A WOMAN lost her home after she discovered that someone had forged paperwork to make it look like she'd signed her home away. The longtime nurse, Deborah Maxwell, purchased the Kansas City, Missouri , home in 2008. The Kansas City Star reported that per court documents, Maxwell's longtime auto insurance agent, Jeffreye Hines, had sold Maxwell her Chelsea Avenue home for $75,000.
According to Maxwell, she and Hines had been acquainted for years, as he had also insured her teenage daughter's first car. "He seemed like an OK business guy. I always considered him a religious person.
He always went to church," Maxwell said. However, in 2015, Maxwell learned someone had seized ownership of the Kansas City home. The person had forged paperwork at the Jackson County Courthouse to make it appear she had given it away, the Kansas City Star reported.
Maxwell had rented out her home, but her tenant - a young woman - failed to pay in 2014. The woman informed Maxwell that she had paid her rent to another person. When Maxwell arrived at the home to complain about the issue, the man who had claimed to own the property and had been collecting its rent "chased her off," per the outlet.
Maxwell filed a complaint with the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office but was notified that there would be no changes until the property record was handled in court. Per the Kansas City Star, attorneys said it seemed Maxwell was the victim of a quit claim deed, which the outlet defines as "a common scam carried o.
