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These dirtbags are stealing Florida houses, and yours is so easy to take, you won't even know it's gone until some other dude's living in it. And some of the people pulling it off are the last people you'd ever expect.
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In the summer of 2022, Lauderhill police found 71-year-old Dennis West dead in his home during a welfare check. What one of the officers did next is one of the sickest things I've ever seen. Brian Sguros told the medical examiner he was West's friend and that West had no living family. West did have family. Then Sguros started acting like West never died. Investigators say he paid the taxes and utilities in West's name and forged his signature to get a permit on a house worth about $400,000. It only fell apart when he filed a claim saying he'd put $214,000 into it and wanted to get paid. On October 20th, he was arrested on 5 felonies, ran from news cameras, and resigned a week later. He's pleaded not guilty.
Just down the road in Hollywood, 25-year-old investors Brandon Miguel and Jordy Perez showed up with papers for Thomas Hegarty, a 71-year-old with severe dementia. He thought he was refinancing. He was actually signing his house of 25 years over to their company, Cash4Keys. Police say a real estate agent drove him away and dumped him at a run-down rooming house in Miami Gardens while they cleaned out everything he owned, including his 3 cars. They called it Operation Dirty Deed. Thomas lives in assisted living in Jacksonville now, and his house is being rented out. He’s still trying to get it back.
Larry and Dreama Bilby lived in their Hillsborough County home for almost 40 years. On Valentine's Day 2024, Michelle Cherry and her husband Victor Rodriguez walked into the county clerk's office and filed a forged quitclaim deed on it. Filing costs about $10, even online, and the clerk doesn't check if it's real. The couple each got 15 years in prison, and luckily, the Bilbys got their house back.
And stealing houses with quitclaim deeds is exploding. 59% of title companies saw at least one attempt in the past year, up from 28% in 2024. Snowbirds, second homes, rentals and vacant land are the top targets. Now they're using AI, and one Florida couple wired $196,000 to a fake seller whose driver's license appears to have been made by a computer.
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Here's what you can do. Go to flclerks.com/PropertyAlertServices and sign up for the free property fraud alert in the county you own property. If somebody records anything on your house, you'll know about it. But it only catches what gets filed after you sign up, so search your county's official records under your name too and make sure nothing's already there. These dirtbags are counting on you never checking. Do it today, before somebody else owns your house.
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