Rising incidents of forged deeds in South Florida

[Peter Walther]

I thought I'd post this recent article on cases of forged deeds on the rise.  As I recently posted, South Florida has always had some of the highest numbers of real property fraud in the country.  This shows the value of having title insurance, but as I also have posted in the past, unless you get a policy for the value of your purchase price plus the value of the improvements you plan on making, you'll be self insured for the latter if the fraud comes to light after you've started the rehab.

Fraudsters target property owners in historic Black neighborhoods in South Florida (local10.com)