Liza Yeager

Nov 22, 2024 | npr.org | Erika Beras |Jeff Guo |Liza Yeager |Sam Kesler

Title insurance, title pirates, and a house built on someone else's land. A couple years ago, Gina Leto, a real estate developer, bought a property with her business partner. The process went like it usually did: Lots of paperwork; a virtual closing. Pretty cut-and-dry. Gina and her partner started building a house on the property. But $800,000 into the construction process, Gina got a troubling call from her lawyer. There was something wrong. At first, Gina thought the house had burned down.