Sep 9, 2024
Escrow cancelled. Five months elapsed. No earnest money deposited. No movement toward closing.
Escrow records
Sep 25, 2024
Purchase Contract executed between Jade Burch and Philistine LLC. Subject-to wrap structure. Purchase price: $725,000. Net to seller: $203,000. First payment due: $40,750. Mortgage remains in seller's name. Contract includes § 14.8: "Buyer is a wholesale buyer... The Purchase Price may not reflect the Property's fair market value."
Purchase Contract — now recorded as Inst. No. 20260427-0000672
Oct 1, 2024
Monthly payment start date per contract. Monthly payment: $3,597.40.
Purchase Contract § 1.5
Sep 2024 – Nov 2025
No scheduled payment of $40,750 made by
Steve Philostin or Philistine LLC. Cure payment of
$12,561.43 returned — drawn on an invalid bank account.
Bank records, court filings
Nov 1, 2025
All agreements terminated for material breach.
Steve Philostin remains in occupancy without a lease, rental agreement, or lawful right of possession.
Termination notice, court filings
During Occupancy
Unpermitted room addition constructed at the property without a Nevada contractor's license (NRS 624). Direct statements made to a third-party buyer that the property had "extensive damage."
Court filings, declarations
Feb 10, 2026 — 8:33 AM
Lis pendens recorded against property title by
Aaron R. Dean on behalf of Philistine LLC. Filed on the morning of a scheduled court hearing.
Nine days before a funded $612,500 closing with a third-party buyer. The lis pendens states the action seeks "partition of the real property." The complaint contains no partition claim.
Clark County Recorder, court docket
Apr 27, 2026 — 11:41 AM
Steve Philostin records the September 25, 2024 Purchase Contract at the Clark County Recorder.
Instrument No. 20260427-0000672. 12 pages. Creates a second recorded encumbrance against the property title alongside the existing lis pendens.
Clark County Recorder — Inst. 20260427-0000672
Apr 27, 2026
Aaron Dean sends cease-and-desist letter to Axis Real Estate LLC (broker Randy J. Maher). Demands listing agent Keith Hill cease all efforts to sell the property. Threatens tortious interference, inducement of breach, negligence, and negligent supervision claims against the agent, brokerage, and third-party buyer Season, LLC. Claims Philostin paid
"$145,500 toward a $203,000 purchase price." CC'd to Fidelity National Title and Ticor Title.
Dean Legal Group correspondence