Posted on 03/19/2025 5:28:01 PM PDT by george76
Most people worry about their bike or car being stolen — not their home.
But that’s exactly what happened to D’Andrea Turner when squatters took over her Phoenix home and sold it without her knowledge.
“It feels so surreal,” Turner shared in an interview with ABC 15 Arizona. “I feel like I’m in the Twilight Zone. Really, I didn’t even think something like this could happen.”
But it did. After Turner’s ex-husband, Keith — a long-haul trucker — left the house unattended for a period of time, two strangers, Aaron Polmanteer and Lledera Hollen, forced their way in.
Once inside, they found personal documents belonging to the Turners, forged new ones, and assumed their identities.
“Squatters stole my house,” Turner said, still in disbelief. “They actually moved in, posed as me, and sold my house.”
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With fraudulent paperwork in hand, Polmanteer and Hollen successfully listed and sold the home to real estate investors for $200,000 — all without the Turners knowing.
They might have gotten away with it too, but they ran into trouble when they tried to cash checks written out in the Turners’ names.
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the story highlights a growing trend of criminals selling property without the homeowners knowing about it.
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What is title fraud?
Your keys give you physical access to your home, but your title secures your legal right to it. That right is recorded on a deed, the legal document that proves who holds ownership.
In a legitimate real estate transaction, the title transfer is carefully overseen by a real estate agent, title company, and notary to ensure everything is properly documented.
But fraudsters know how to manipulate the system, sometimes slipping through these safeguards undetected.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
An OTR driver can be away from home for months.
Have people tried the concept of locking doors?
Google Property Fraud Alert.
Of course they lock doors. Squatters break in
You can replace locks at Home Depot. Crackheads have a culture devoted to bypassing security systems.
“forced their way in.”
Go watch some lock-picking videos on YouTube. Get back to me.
where we live everybody has a sign that either reads, “we don’t dial 911, we dial .357” or “we are armed and have a backhoe”.
I don’t understand how things like this can stand legally.
It’s incomprehensible.
Or getting people to check on their house while they are away??
My scooter was stolen.
Definitely calls for an SSS moment...
It’s easier to comprehend once we accept the notion that it happens because the cities, municipalities and country has allowed it to happen and look the other way.
Maybe Trump can cover this before handing over the keys to JD.
I started watching “The Lockpicking Lawyer” during covid, bought a pickset and handful of locks.
Never show your wife how you can rake open the front door deadbolt in 10 seconds.
“I don’t understand how things like this can stand legally.
It’s incomprehensible.”
To you, but I understand today’s DEMOCRATS and squatting and stealing homes fits their Marxist views PERFECTLY. Until recently, this wasn’t a problem because DEMOCRATS were also against it. Not anymore.
In Red States, like here in Texas, we had to beef up our laws recently to make it tougher for squatters...Blue States aren’t as interested in property rights and thus an owner better not be ‘out of town’ very long if they want to hold on to their residence.
They can’t.
If you didn’t sign a deed that purports to transfer title to your house, the deed is ineffective. It’s still their house.
The buyer’s remedy is to get their money back from their title insurer. Title insurance insures against forged deeds.
LOL, bad idea.
Fundamentally, I live in Mayberry, in a gated community, in the far (safer) part of a county where I know the Sheriff and know his people go after criminals aggressively, I know the DA, who prosecutes them, and we have a jail people don’t want to be in on their way to prison.
But yeah, I really should work on my security cam alarms.
Here’s an interesting recent post from someone with the same system. He has some nicer cameras.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubiquiti/comments/1jdk78g/protect_woke_me_up_at_3am_to_see_this/
Anyway, layered security is good!
They should be killed.
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