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Tuesday, February 10, 2026
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High profile Rhode Island realtor Kyle Seyboth is the subject of a new lawsuit filed on Monday in federal court.
The lawsuit is related to the actions filed by the Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha.
In November 2024, GoLocal was first to report that Seyboth – and a number of his related companies and associates – were hit by the Rhode Island Attorney General’s office with claims that the group “took advantage of two elderly Haitian immigrants with limited command of the English language to swindle the pair out of their home for a fraction of its value.”
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That case is still pending in Providence Superior Court.
New Federal Lawsuit
Also named in this new lawsuit are Lowell Williams, Chris Messier and a series of companies related to Seyboth.
The lawsuit asserts in its opening paragraph:
After scamming two elderly Haitian immigrants out of the $400,000 home that they had owned for almost thirty years, providing them the relatively paltry sum of $100,000 in exchange, defendant Kyle Seyboth explained the circumstances to the plaintiffs’ panicked daughter thusly, “I own the house. It’s my [f–king] house. It’s my house.” Mr. Seyboth is wrong.
The lawsuit has multiple counts, including a claim that Seyboth and the other defendants are guilty of a civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).
According to the lawsuit filed on Monday, “Plaintiffs Marie Delva and Jean Marie Delva (collectively the “Debtors” or the “Delvas”), both debtors in separate cases under chapter 13, Title 11 of the United State Code (the “Bankruptcy Code”) before the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island, bring this action to: a) recover the prepetition fraudulent transfer of exempt property, to wit, their residence located at 58 Pekin Street, Providence; b) seek a determination that the foreclosure rescue scam through which they lost the Property was in fact a loan transaction and to recharacterize the conveyance of the Property as an equitable mortgage; c) have the usurious loan transaction declared void; and d) for monetary relief under applicable law.”
“Defendants collectively orchestrated or participated in a foreclosure rescue scam and, through a bait-and-switch, took the Debtors’ $400,000 home for $100,000 while requiring repayment of $280,000 within a year for the Debtors to get their home back. In designing this transaction, certain Defendants candidly referred to the transaction as a loan when communicating among themselves, and referred to the Debtors’ periodic payments as ‘mortgage payments,’” states the lawsuit.
Nick Hemond, Seyboth’s attorney, told GoLocal, “The Delvas lied to each other, they lied to the AG, then they lied in superior court, now it would seem they intend to take their lies to federal court.”
Seyboth’s History and Real Estate Expert for WJAR-10
In October of 2025, Seyboth made threats to call immigration officials against a family he was in a dispute with.
Then, he was caught on tape berating a man in a related dispute.
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Seyboth heads the Seyboth Team and is affiliated with Century 21.
He continues to be a regular on WJAR’s Studio 10 as a real estate expert.
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