Imagine someone files a quiet title on your house, claiming ownership and you are never notified. Depending on where you live this could be perfectly legal.
Or you could enter into a contract for deed in which you are paying the seller for a house over time but the seller can yank the carpet out from under you, leaving you without a home. This practice targets people for whom a conventional mortgage may not be an option.
Kassidy Arena, a reporter for Iowa Public Radio and KCUR's Laura Ziegler explain how these practices are being deployed to deprive people of their homes.
- Kassidy Arena, reporter for Iowa Public Radio
- Laura Ziegler, community reporter for KCUR