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Is this title/bill of sale fake?

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Scarlettink48

Junior Member
Is this bill of sale a fraud?

My grandparents gave my parents 3/4 of an acre of land they put a burnt mobile home on it also given to them by my grandparents and built onto it a lot of additions including a second story. With the original mobile home the additions an stage second story it totalled out to be almost 5,000 square feet paid for as they went My mom, dad and me worked hard on it we did most the work ourselves with no help actually. After about ten years my grandparents went to legal court and obtained legal possesion of the house and evicted us, they wanted to sell it and keep the money for themselves. Since my grandparents never officially put on paper that they gave my parents the land they said they never gave it to them and according to Georgia law they could take possession of what ever was attached to it. Even though my grandfather had written down that he gave the mobile to me and my parents he said it wasn't his hand writing and he had never seen it before. They evicted us. After eight years they were not able to sale it and the house was falling down due to them not upkeeping it at all. They said they were going to legally deed the land and the house over to me if I moved back. My mother and I moved back not my Father my parents were now divorced. They did not deed the land to me and the mobile home title/bill of sale looks questionable to me. Its a 4x4 square of paper with filigre around it that says 'On this day of 'blank' I give this mobile home 'blank' to 'blank' and my grandmother signed my grandfather's name on it since it was in his name apparently. There were no other blanks. I didn't sign my name. There were no witness signatures. No spaces for anything else. Nothing about land. The paper didn't have the wording title or anything on it I'm not sure what it's supposed to be. Is this little paper worth anything in the court of law? Could they take possession of our house and evict us again? We live in a small town. Last time we went to court we had a judge that they knew personally and talked to regularly as a friend my entire life the only other judge in town was their lawyer for thirty years. Could I possibly have this case transferred to a different court out of county if anything happened? We live in Georgia.
 


adjusterjack

Senior Member
Seems like your parents screwed up twice.

Once by building a 5000 sf home on land that wasn't DEEDED to them and again by moving back to the property (still not owning the land) based on some potentially unenforceable scrap of paper.

Tell your mother to get it right this time by hiring an attorney to review the situation.

By the way, why wasn't the ownership of the home addressed during the divorce?

Third mistake?
 

FlyingRon

Senior Member
I agree with AJ. Get a lawyer to draft a proper deed and have it signed and recorded. Then get owner's title insurance before sinking even a $1 into the property further. I wouldn't even take a gift of property from my sainted aunt without title insurance.
 

Scarlettink48

Junior Member
Seems like your parents screwed up twice.

Once by building a 5000 sf home on land that wasn't DEEDED to them and again by moving back to the property (still not owning the land) based on some potentially unenforceable scrap of paper.

Tell your mother to get it right this time by hiring an attorney to review the situation.

By the way, why wasn't the ownership of the home addressed during the divorce?

Third mistake?

In divorce court the judge said it had already been settled that it was my grandparents ( same judge that handled the eviction). My grandpa had written it out that the house was mine and my parents the first go around but lied in court and said that the paper my parents presented was a fraud. There was no arguing or investigation to go with it, I don't get that if that's the case I could sell a car sign the paperwork for it then ten years down the road take it and say I never did. And I don't think my parents would've done that if it wasn't on family land I guess they didn't think that my grandparents would stab them in the back.
 

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