A HOMEOWNER learned that his family house had been sold out from under him after receiving a series of phone calls and texts. Darryl Sherman's Detroit, Michigan house on Santa Clara Street had been in his family since 1970. His mother-in-law Marjorie Taylor and her husband had bought the home 50 years ago before passing it down when Taylor died in 2010.
Then, last year, he began receiving text messages and phone calls from a woman who said that his family home was actually hers, reported ClickonDetroit . At the time, a renter had been living in the Detriot home. It turns out that Sherman had been a victim of a quit claim deed fraud.
Quit claim deeds are legal documents that allow a person to transfer ownership of a property to another person without proof of sale. They are commonly used to gift homes between family members and can be legitimate legal documents. Unfortunately, these documents are relatively easy to forge.
Sherman’s attorney, Gilbert Borman, explained that he has faced multiple of similar cases. “People have suddenly gotten a knock on the door and been told, ‘You don’t own the house,'" he said. It all begins with a forged document and leads to a scammer trying to evict the rightful homeowner.
“Somebody concocted a fraudulent deed and recorded it. And now they’re trying to evict the actual owner," Borman said of Sherman's case. While investigating how the fraudulent deed came to be, Sherman's lawyer found some suspicious activity.
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