Oddball question, who owns the troubled property?

[Lamont Cranston]

This will be a long story so get a cup of coffee. A house in my neighbor hood, was owned by an80+ year old lady, she lived in it with her 55+ year old son and the grandson. The last two were drug addicts. Mamma died in Jan 2022, 55+ son, sold the house to  'builder/buyer' in Mar 2022 for about 50% ($155k) of market value, but, the house was in horrible condition. The 55+ son died one month later. The 'builder/buyer' had a crew empty the inside, (Five 30yd dumpsters) nothing left but bare walls, did some floor repairs, some electric, soffet and facia work, etc. Then stopped all work. It still had no ceilings. A few months it was for sale, later he sold it too Buyer2 for less than he had into it. Then it sold again several months later to buyer3. So, the other day my wife said someone brought some cabinets into the house, so I decided I would do some more deed research, I had already done some and there were no records for any of the above. Most of this is what my wife, a born spy, everyone at ease with her, she has no shame and will as any questions to get information. My starting line is that the 55+ son did not own the home, the mamma's probate had not started and it was part of her estate. Probate did start Jan 2023, but has not progressed far. I started looking at the county records online, I found a quit-claim deed sign in June 2009, it was just recorded in Mar of 2023. (Suspicion 1) the quit-claim deed is from mamma to 55+ son. Looking at the signatures on the Quit claim, mamma has a couple of letters that she writes very distinctively. That is missing from her signature (Suspicion 2) The quit-claim has a middle section for witnesses, the notary acted as one of the witnesses. Her signature as a witness, is missing some of her distinctive characteristics. Where she writes the ST at DL and number the first letter of the state is notably different, her L are curved at the corner, the L's on the quit-claim are curved at the corner. (Suspicion 3) I have other documents that I located to show me the above information. OK, I can go on with more of that, but I won't. I went to the county clerk and ask questions, who filed this paper, "don't know it was E-filed" Are you suspicious about this? "We just file them, the rest is up to the lawyers. So, I'm wondering about the guy that thinks he owns it now, I don't think he filed the 2009 document in Mar 2023, I think he might have a chance to get his money back, but it may take a lawsuit.

The money from the original sale went for drugs, what was left went to the grandson, but I even question how he got the money if it was in a bank, because the 55+ drug addict would not have trusted his son drug addict to put his name on the account, so I suspect some trickery,  (forgery) there also.

If you wonder why I care, I really don't, I'm just sleuthing. It was a 10 year soap opera of watching the twice weekly delivery of drugs, not hidden at all, overdoses with firetruck, cops and  ambulance, at least 10 times, sometimes narcan was enough other times a hospital visit, the coroner came twice, sadly that was for girlfriends of the hanger oners. Never any charges of any kind.

Take this as a caveat to make sure of what you are getting into, all three that have bought it so far were just trying to make a buck on a property.

But none, did there due diligence!

If you have any comments, I'd be interested :-)

                        Lamont