Stealing a house should, in theory, be difficult. Houses are large. They are attached to the ground. Most of them cannot be tucked inside a jacket while a security guard is looking the other way.
But San Francisco officials say two people tried something considerably simpler: paperwork.
City Attorney David Chiu has filed a civil lawsuit against Brandon Aadee and Diana Peng, alleging the pair tried to take ownership of a multimillion-dollar home in San Francisco’s wealthy Sea Cliff neighborhood using a series of forged or altered deeds. Over roughly 13 months, the city says ownership of the property was transferred eight times, bouncing back and forth between Aadee and Peng like the world’s most expensive game of hot potato…