By Andrea Papagianis
A man convicted of recording false documents on properties he didn’t own—valued at over $3.5 million—in Dana Point, San Clemente and Anaheim as part of an intricate rental scheme was sentenced December 13 to four years in an Orange County prison.
Blair Christopher Hanloh, 50, of Long Beach was convicted of five felony counts of recording false and forged instruments by a jury on October 30.
Hanloh owned and operated Blair Hanloh Trustee of Diversified Management Trust, which the District Attorney’s office held he started in order to record quitclaim deeds. Quitclaim deeds are filed with the county Clerk-Recorder’s Department to sever ownership of a property to pass it to another.
The DA argued Hanloh falsely transferred vacant and mid-foreclosure homes into his name, changed the locks, fixed the properties up and had renters sign fraudulent lease agreements. Hanloh recorded quitclaim deeds for homes on Del Gado Road and Sea Bright Drive in Dana Point, Avenida Valencia in San Clemente and on Birch Tree Lane and Rainview Court in Anaheim.
Charges stemmed from an Anaheim Police Department investigation after the legal owner of the Rainview Court property reported people living in his home that he had not rented to. DA’s investigators assisted.
Orange County Superior Court Judge William Froeberg ruled Hanloh’s sentence could not be served in a state prison due to current state realignment legislation. Hanloh is housed at the Central Mens Jail in Santa Ana, according to county inmate records.