Cocktail Party Jokes Come To Life

When people ask what kind of law I do, often as not I’ll say “stolen houses.” Title fraud, shady finance deals, irregular sales contracts gone wrong (often as not involving sellers carrying paper back for the buyer), surveyors smoking stuff they shouldn’t before work, squatters, that sort of thing. Rarely do I get to point to a case in which a house has been physically stolen. But I suppose that does happen too.