An Alvin man faces 40 years in prison for stealing homes and reselling them.
man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for stealing homes and reselling them to unsuspecting buyers.
"We’ve been buying ugly houses in Houston since 1997. That’s what we do," said Jim Youngblood with HomeVestors."Shortly after we purchased the property, we were doing a demo and an attorney came to the house and made my guys stop working, and said it his was her client's house, and we needed to stop," said Youngblood.The owner, Youngblood explained, "John Lewis, had been deceased for the last five or six years and all of this was complete fraud.
"It certainly delayed me and really affected the other investors. They were actually out of pocket many thousands of dollars, tens of thousands of dollars, because they had bought a fake deed," said Fang.54-year-old Juchway Rhodes, Jr. of Alvin, Texas has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for stealing $442,000 by forging documents to put four homes into his name and then reselling them.
"Because if the title insurer says everything is in order with the title, and it turns out it's not, it's on the title company to make the buyer whole," said Rick Kahler with Khaler Financial Group.
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