A Parkland real-estate investor is accused of pulling off a cold-blooded real estate flip at the expense of a vulnerable senior, after Broward deputies say he used a quitclaim deed to take a 75-year-old Hollywood man’s condo, sold it for $180,000 and parked the disabled homeowner in a run-down mobile home in Dania Beach. Investigators say the man, who has dementia, never saw a cent of the sale proceeds and was found living in filthy, unsafe conditions.
Deputies arrested 54-year-old Igor Shlafman and charged him with exploitation of an elderly person and unlawfully filing false documents, according to Local10. A Broward Sheriff’s Office report states that a quitclaim deed transferred the condo to Shlafman’s company, and that he later sold the unit while the victim received none of the net proceeds.
The report also names an associate, identified as Zach Miednik, who investigators say owned the Dania Beach trailer where the victim ended up. Detectives described the trailer as “deplorable” and noted that “the dining room table contained uneaten food and the kitchen countertops were covered in food debris.” Miednik is expected to be charged, according to the report…