Actual Rental Fraud on Craigslist – Don’t Wire Money Anywhere!
I have a home in Campbell that I manage for clients. It’s vacant so I have an ad on Craigslist offering it for rent and had folks show up today at 1PM. After the storm of prospective renters stampeded through the house, there was a voice at the door. “Is the house open for showing” [...]
Old Republic Insurance NOT Cooperating in HAFA
I have the pleasure of working with a BofA first and second on a short sale. I know! Scary enough to deal with BofA. But wait, there is more. Apparently Old Republic Insured the second and BofA redeemed the insurance thereby assigning the second lien to Old Republic. [ I've actually had conflicting stories on [...]
Short Sale Surprise
Let’s just say that you were one of those people that was a janitor and wanted to buy a house in 2005. Everyone around you was buying houses, even that stupid Ricky kid down the street bought a house and your wife was harping on you, pushing the “stupid loser” button, because you hadn’t bought [...]