Rants: How a Brooklyn Investor Stole 11 Homes

Rants & Gems Real Estate Podcast

EYL Network

Investing, Business

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

How does someone steal 11 homes… legally?

Today I’m breaking down the insane Brooklyn deed-theft case where a “real estate investor” took over distressed homeowners’ properties, transferred the deeds, and pocketed years of rental income — while the original owners were still on the hook for the mortgages.

This is one of the wildest cases in NYC real estate right now, and it exposes a major problem that homeowners, investors, and agents need to understand:

deed theft, short sale scams, fake rescue plans, and predatory “consultants” targeting people in foreclosure.

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0:33.8	Today, we're going to tonight, I should say. We're going to talk about how a Brooklyn investor stole 11 homes and he got away with the rent, man.
0:42.8	I saw this story a couple months ago, and I wanted to continue following it until the sentison happened just to see how much time this guy was given and you know we hear stories about this
0:57.2	all the time excuse me we hear stories about this all the time people deeds being stolen
1:04.8	it's just a terrible thing so i wanted to come on here tonight to kind of share some insight with you guys because, look, this is a real estate channel.
1:15.6	And the theft is a real thing.
1:20.9	It definitely is a real thing.
1:22.5	It's happening nationwide.
1:24.6	So I want to give you guys some information on how to protect yourself from this,
1:29.7	from this happening to you, to your family members, co-worker, anybody. But first, let me get you
1:36.2	guys caught up and up to speed on this case. So that way you guys know exactly where we are so i am going to share my screen
1:49.4	and if this is your first time here at first time in the chat okay so let me share my screen
1:57.2	with you guys right now and let's get to this right now okay for deed theft victims here
2:09.2	in our borough thanks for being with us on news 12 Brooklyn I'm Amanda Bossard a disbarred
2:14.1	attorney is now convicted of stealing deeds from nearly a dozen minority homeowners.
2:19.3	News 12's Nadia Galindo spoke with one of those victims about the bittersweet moment.
2:24.3	He stole our lives. We were no longer happy in our house. We were feeling like strangers in our own homes.
2:33.3	What was a shining example of an American dream
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