Real Estate

Vivia Palmer defrauded over 20 consumers in the Miami area by posing as a real estate brokerage service specialist. If you are working with someone you don't know on an expensive transaction, it's important to check references.

Jennifer Walter gave Vivia Elaine Palmer a $2,850 check to make a deed change on the house she was living in.

Palmer, 59, of Sunrise, told Walter the $2,850 was ''good faith money,'' and she would get it back once the transaction was completed.

The deal never happened. Palmer, who passed herself off as a brokerage services expert, investigators say, was a fraud.

Palmer was arrested a second time Wednesday on charges of real estate fraud, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office.

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