It was August, and Crest Properties had just bought a 3,100-square-foot house at 1614 Meadowlark Landing Drive in the Lawing Pond neighborhood in Charlotte. The subsidiary of Indianapolis-based Timberstone Homes had planned to renovate, and then sell, the 4-year-old home. With the home-construction industry suffering, Crest has been buying up unsold homes of other builders [...]
A state Superior Court judge has ruled against a Matthews real estate broker accused of defending homeowners in foreclosures cases without being authorized to practice law. The ruling, which was handed down in June, is the latest in a string of legal setbacks for Dianne Michele Carter. In making the ruling, Judge Paul Gessner supported [...]
The North Carolina attorney general’s office and other agencies have requested documents related to deed scams in Mecklenburg County, Register of Deeds David Granberry has told The Mecklenburg Times. Granberry would not name which agencies besides the attorney general’s office are investigating cases of erroneous documents filed in his office, but sources have told The [...]
North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper has obtained a court order to stop a group of six people and some trusts from filing fraudulent deeds on foreclosed homes for sale in Raleigh, Wake Forest and Apex. The alleged scam is similar to an erroneous-deed problem that has been affecting the Charlotte area. The Mecklenburg Times [...]
When someone files a deed for a property they don’t actually own with the office of Mecklenburg County Register of Deeds David Granberry, there’s nothing Granberry can do to stop it. Granberry could know the deed is not legit, that the claim for the house is false. Still, his office doesn’t have the power to [...]
As the problem of erroneous deeds and liens becomes more prevalent here, Mecklenburg County Register of Deeds David Granberry checks weekly for new fraudulent documents that may have been filed in his office. During his searches, Granberry said he has noticed that some notary signatures have changed over time, leading him to wonder if there [...]
