TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Another victim is coming forward saying a company took his father’s home back in 2023, and he had to fight in court to get it back.

News Channel 8 On Your Side previously interviewed Bershuana Moore, a Tampa woman who said a company stole her home. The company has not been charged in Moore’s case. After our initial story aired, Moore said she was able to get a lawyer.

Andrew Ross and his attorney took the same company, American Resource Group LLC, to court and won the title back.

“Honestly, it was the fact that it was so simple for this other person to do it and how difficult it was for me to prove that who I was,” Ross said. “I was completely blindsided. I genuinely, I was like, I didn’t know that you were able to literally steal someone’s property by just filing a couple fraudulent pieces of paper.”

His attorney, Michael Hildebrandt, pointed out how the quitclaim deed filed was spread out across multiple pages, had three different and inaccurate dates for when it was signed, and how notaries are only licensed for four years, but the expiration date on the notary was in 2026.

He also said Aura Mendez, the owner of American Resource Group LLC, wasn’t an official notary until 2022, but the document was allegedly signed and notarized by her in either 2011 or 2019.

“The owner of American Resource Group is actually the one who witnessed and notarized it. So first of all, you know under notary statutes, you cannot notarize a document that you have a financial interest in,” Hildebrandt said.

Similar problems were noted by attorneys in the quitclaim deed for Moore’s home. Hildebrandt said there have to be two disinterested witnesses on the deed, but Mendez was one of them.

“We’ll just say (there’s) a high likelihood of Miss Moore succeeding in this case. Because again, it is pretty clear on the face of the deed that is fraudulent,” Hildebrandt said.

Ross said he was blindsided by this kind of fraud and hopes no one else has to experience it.

“Honestly, it’s almost dehumanizing,” he said.

Ross said he wants to see more checks and balances at the clerk of court office and he feels it can make a difference in this happening to others.

Attorneys advise people to once a month go on to the clerk of courts website, type in your name, and check on your properties. Hildebrandt said because American Resource Group is now inactive there likely won’t be new cases with their name on it, but old cases are worth looking into.