Question: How prevalent is wire fraud in today’s real estate environment? “It is more prevalent than you might imagine, and it absolutely has been getting worse,” said Tom Cronkright, co-founder and executive chairman of CertifID, an Austin-based technology platform...
A plan to transform a former convent and college campus in Syracuse, New York, into a low-income senior housing complex is being complicated by persistent vandalism at the property. Syracuse.com reported the former Sisters of St. Francis convent and Maria Regina...
A New York City man pleaded guilty for his role in a conspiracy to fraudulently acquire multifamily and commercial properties. Boruch “Barry” Drillman was accused of conspiring with at least four others to deceive lenders into issuing $165 million in multifamily and...
There are more than few metro areas in today’s America that can be considered guilty of questionable behavioral patterns – as witnessed in WalletHub’s data report of 2023’s Most Sinful Cities in America. To get a data handle on the slippery concept of sin, WalletHub...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation designed to protect state residents from deed theft. Legislation S.6577/A.6656 enables the New York State Attorney General and local district attorneys investigating or litigating deed theft to pause related eviction and...