After returning home from a 9-month deployment, I found all my belongings stuffed into trash bags inside my own house

“Hold on,” he muttered.

He pulled out a document I hadn’t seen.

“That yours?” he asked.

Purchase agreement.

My address.

My house.

Buyer: private development firm.

Sale price: $650,000.

“Where did you get this?” I asked.

“Pulled from preliminary filings,” he said. “This was submitted for processing last week.”

Last week.

While I was overseas.

Seller: Richard.

Signature: Richard.

Co-signed by Evelyn.

Then an attached deed bearing my name and another forged signature.

Cleaner than the power of attorney.

Still wrong.

“They don’t own this property,” Dalton said.

“I