Dollar Back Realty

For about 20 years, monthly payments from a Paso Robles real estate investment fund arrived like clockwork. But last year, said Tehachapi resident Jack Girkins, 76, everything stopped cold. Interest payments from roughly $380,000 Girkins and his wife Sharon had invested with the company, Estate Financial Inc., dried up. “It was a good part of our income,” he said.

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