[quote=UCGal]
That one does look interesting… but I don’t think fraud was involved.

I looked up the parcel number – and got the prop tax payers names… and plugged them into a grant deed search. It appears that the most recent “sale” was a buyout between two family members. Not arms length – and one of the previous owners still owns it, just not jointly…
At least that’s what it looked like on a cursory look.[/quote]

Mr. Oliver deeded it to the Oliver trust 4 months after he bought it.

Sometimes people assign a dollar amount to the property (or some portion thereof or the fractional interest being deeded) at the time they do that.

Not exactly a smoking birth certificate.

People use the word fraud pretty loosely around here.