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But they reported finding a similar ad on another listings site — for $200 less. ... Real estate scams are nothing new. But as rents, home prices, and inflation remain high in today’s volatile ...
MissingMoney.com is a web portal created by participating U.S. states to allow individuals to search for unclaimed funds. [1] It was established in November 1999, [2] as a joint effort between the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators (NAUPA) and financial services provider CheckFree. [3] By December of that year, 10 states ...
A dream home became a nightmare when Raegan Bartlo and her husband lost $255K to real estate wire fraud. Learn how this elaborate scam works — and how to spot the signs you're about to be their ...
Bid4Assets, established in 1999, was the first online real estate auction website to operate in the United States. [1] [2] The company auctions distressed real estate and personal property for private investors and federal and local government. [3]
It's a dangerous time to be a real estate investor scouting out parcels of land. The United States Secret Service Cybercrime Investigations division "has observed a sharp increase in reports of ...
In an equity stripping scheme an investor buys the property from a homeowner facing foreclosure and agrees to lease the home to the homeowner who may remain in the home as a tenant. Often, these transactions take advantage of uninformed, low-income homeowners; because of the complexity of the transaction, victims are often unaware that they are ...
Equity stripping or equity skimming is a variation on lease-buyback and is one of the most common types of foreclosure rescue schemes. [4] In it, the perpetrator assumes ownership of the house while allowing the former owner to continue living there, provided that s/he pay rent to the perpetrator, who is the new owner.
A Boca Raton real estate broker almost lost $200,000 in a fake property deed scam, that is until he got a message from a woman claiming to be the rightful owner of the land.