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Woman arrested 2nd time at Charlotte home she’s taken over
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A woman has been arrested a second time on a trespassing charge at a vacant home she has taken over in Charlotte. Multiple media outlets reported that 42-year-old […]
Yet another scam targets Mecklenburg County’s many vacant properties
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 […]
Superior Court judge rules against Matthews real estate broker
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 […]
Investigations launched into Mecklenburg County deed scams
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 […]
Attorney General Roy Cooper investigates squatter scam
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 […]
Officials struggle to wash hands of dirty deeds
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 […]
Lawmaker tries, fails to block erroneous deeds
Registers of deeds battling erroneous deeds filed in the name of the Moorish Science Temple of America will get no intervention from the state — at least for now. In […]
Title insurance will protect against erroneous deeds
When Charlotte attorney Bob Hull learned about fraudulent deeds being filed at metro area courthouses, his initial reaction was that it would create a title nightmare. But he’s changed his […]
Charlotte-area real estate agents warned about scam
It was a presentation Union County Sheriff’s Office attorney Bill McGuirt never thought he would have to give. “Larceny of a house: Who would have ever thought of such a […]
Govt. officials battle ‘epidemic’ targeting Charlotte-area homes
On June 1, a real estate agent was showing a house to a couple in the Union County town of Weddington. While the couple checked out the basement of the […]
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