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Posted on 07/01/2025 10:25:19 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
The latter is exactly what Alba and Jarin Martinez are accused of doing.
The Texas husband-and-wife duo are accused of falsely claiming ownership and selling properties they didn’t own, according to an April lawsuit filed by the Harris County Attorney’s Office.
The couple is being sued for more than $1 million in damages and is said to have falsely claimed ownership of at least 35 properties in Harris County, reported ABC13.
A judge signed a temporary injunction to prevent the Martinezes from filing documents related to these properties, according to KPRC 2.
But Alba Martinez has been accused of violating the court order in two instances, including one reportedly caught on camera, and the county is asking that she be held in contempt of court.
KPRC 2 says it got surveillance video footage of Alba signing a contract on May 22 to sell a property in the Acres Homes neighborhood to Sasser Land Group, a land acquisition company.
Court records show that the property in question was owned by a couple who passed away and left it to their heirs. The Martinzes allegedly used a fake warranty deed and affidavit of heirship to attempt to pass the property off as their own.......
Unfortunately, it appears all too easy for criminals to forge documents that make them appear to be the rightful owners of a property, allowing them to potentially sell it out from under you. It's important to be vigilant to avoid becoming a victim.
First, never leave your property empty for long stretches of time. Properties that don't seem to be lived in can be easy targets. If you own a second home, have a neighbor check in from time to time, or hire a property manager.
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It’s much more remunerative to sell other people’s property.
Make it a crime punishable by death and then it won’t happen anymore.
I have noticed that ‘the County’ doesn’t really care about ownership, Deeds, Land titles etc. as long as property taxes are paid promptly.
Government isn’t there to stop criminals. It is there to stop normal people.
It’s quite satisfying to sell stuff. What to do if you don’t own anything? She found a solution.
Tell me you have no idea how land title works in Texas, without telling me you have no idea how land title works in Texas.
Almost happened to Elvis Presley’s house
“If you own a second home, have a neighbor check in from time to time, or hire a property manager.”
Sound advice, but I fail to see how this would stop a fraudulent filing at the county courthouse.
These fraudsters committed a paper crime, they weren’t squatting, and possibly never visited the property in question.
There was a commercial recently by an ex-con who did this very crime, explaining just how easy it was to do. I can’t remember any more than that.
Until the Supreme Court’s recent home equity theft decision, NYS made some decent money doing that.
...at least not by the same perp.
Tell me that you flunked civics and US Government without telling me that you have absolutely no idea what the job of government is.
Perhaps you ought to go post on Democrat Underground.
One of the primary duties of government is to prevent the theft of the property of it's citizens.
In this and many other cases recently the government not only failed in it's respociblilty but actually sided with the criminal and forced the law abiding to take expensive and time consuming action to fix what the government broke.
If you think that preventing and prosecuting theft is somehow "totalitarian" you should be posting from an insane asylum.
Or perhaps like all communists you think "private property is theft".
Fair enough. You can’t distinguish between punishing criminal fraud, and totalitarian control over the exchange of property. Hopefully the government will send someone round to your home three times a day to put masking tape over your ears and nostrils before each meal, to keep you from shoving your spork in the wrong orifice.
If we executed predators on society this crap would stop.
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