Hope you're having a great week.
It's nothing new to any of you reading this that Real Estate is a great way to make a lot of money, if done right with a cooperating market. However, there is also an under-current of those that use fraud, manipulation, and other schemes to scrape funds from people with blatant disregard for the law.
For example, there were 4 such incidents that popped up in the news this past week, one involving a Real Estate Broker, one involving an Internet Scam, another involving some Real Estate Investors, and yet another one overseas, just to show how far-reaching this issue goes.
To be specific, a Real Estate Broker in Phoenix was convicted for evading over $3 Million in taxes from land sales and broker commissions, while some guy sold property in Alabama...property he didn't own and never gave up the Title for once he was paid! The story involving the Real Estate Investors was related to fraud and bid-rigging at Public Real Estate Foreclosure Auctions in California. The overseas one that I referred to above was in New Zealand, where a real estate salesman misled a buyer and failed to pass on an offer made by another buyer.
I'm going to assume that overall, people are "good", however, with the markets the way they are right now, there are a lot of desperate folks out there, and a lot of people waiting to pounce on them like prey. Of course, everyone is innocent until proven guilty, but the sheer spike in these stories tells me that this is a trend that will continue in tandem with the market woes.
The lesson here: Caveat Emptor, or "Buyer Beware". Do you have any similar stories to share with our readers?
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Have a Great Week, and Happy Rent-to-Owning !
Regards,
Rob Eisenstein
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