Alba Martinez and her husband Jarin Martinez, who do not operate as a business, face accusations of orchestrating a sophisticated real estate theft scheme involving at least 37 properties, according to a lawsuit filed by the Harris County Attorney’s Office.

It’s a nightmare scenario: discovering your home has been stolen from you without any warning. KPRC 2 Investigator Amy Davis has been delving into cases like these for years, uncovering the unsettling reality of property fraud.

The deeds have now been put back into their names with help from local attorneys Marianne Robak and Lori Hood, who discovered the suspicious deeds during an investigation for their lawsuit against Houston-based Surrogacy Escrow Account Management or SEAM and owner Dominique Side.

There are calls for legislative changes to prevent deed fraud after KPRC 2′s story about three properties getting transferred to a complete stranger and stamped by the same notary.