Southern California Realtors Form Task Force To Combat Foreclosure Fraud

In Riverside County, California, The Press Enterprise reports:

• Real estate agents who are joining forces across Riverside County to combat pervasive foreclosure fraud are taking their message to several southwestern Riverside County cities. Gene Wunderlich, chairman of the Southwest Riverside County Association of Realtors, spoke at the Lake Elsinore City Council meeting [recently] about the task force and the types of fraud hitting the Inland area. He spoke at the Murrieta City Council a week earlier. Wunderlich's organization has teamed with the Riverside-based Inland Valley Association of Realtors to form the task force, which has a twofold purpose: outreach to fraud victims and lobbying law enforcement to pursue and prosecute fraud suspects. "Real estate fraud is horrendous in the Inland Empire," Wunderlich said. "We're trying to reach out to people in the community to let them know they have someone to turn to."

For more, see Two groups of Realtors try to be agents of change against real estate fraud.