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Real Estate Scams and Deed Theft Leave Brooklyn Homeowners on Edge

by Anthony Johnson May 15, 2026

At a recent town hall meeting in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn residents continued to raise the alarm on deed theft, partition schemes and other real estate scams destroying their equity and livelihood.

Edward Mostoller, the director of the Homeowner & Consumer Advocacy Project at the City Bar Justice Center, told the crowd that homeowners should have an estate plan so everything is spelled out on paper.

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