Investigative reporters from Cox Media Group stations collaborated on stories about a real estate company now accused of deceiving customers across the country.
The collaboration is part of a new approach by the station group, which added senior-level reporters and producers earlier this year in an effort to do more stories that have national impact.
The stories involve MV Realty, which offers a few hundred dollars in cash to homeowners in return for a commitment to use MV Realty when they decide to sell their houses.
According to reporting by CMG, many of those homeowners are unaware that MV Realty uses that commitment to put a 40-year lien on the homes. If they sell their home using another real estate agent, homeowners are forced to pay thousands of dollars to MV Realty.
