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Jonie Lieberman Verify Identity and preventing fraud!
27 June 2024 | 1 reply

I am becomming more and more concerned with fraud.  The last rental I posted, I had a woman apply and found out she had stolen someone’s identity when I was working through the background.  I found out when I decided ...

Nazar Trilisky Preventing Deed Fraud: Twice-Sold Property
19 September 2019 | 13 replies

How can a buyer protect themselves from a seller who sells a property twice?
Recording a deed is not required by law, so a seller can write two deeds for the same property to two separate buyers, collect the money, a...

John Slater Foreclosure Fraud Prevention Acts... how serious are they?
10 September 2023 | 2 replies

I keep seeing posts about "you should be careful" and "you can get in a lot of trouble" for working with homeowners in foreclosure.I hear people say "some states have laws" to protect homeowners in foreclosure, and "E...

Steve Babiak "CoreLogic Expects Short Sale Fraud Prevention Tool to Catch On"
26 June 2011 | 5 replies

"CoreLogic Expects Short Sale Fraud Prevention Tool to Catch On"

http://www.biggerpockets.com/links/6844

Excerpt from this link:

To prevent short-sale fraud before closing, the new tool matches loan details against...

Jesse Mundt WHOLESALE questions
30 March 2016 | 8 replies

Hello everyone,I believe that experience is the best teacher, and since I don't have much yet in this industry I'm looking for responses from those that do.I understand the best way to generate leads and put a house u...

Account Closed Deed Fraud on the Rise, via WSJ
13 September 2022 | 12 replies

Good article from WSJ about deed fraud on the rise. Seems some folks think buying the house is too much trouble, so they're forging the documents and selling it without buyers knowing it.http://www.wsj.com/articles/la...

Allende Hernandez Some questions about a potential deal
25 July 2016 | 7 replies

Hi guys,I've been working on a deal off my mailing campaign for about 4 months now. I believe I'm getting close to get the contract, so I need to lay the ground and plan my actions once it happens.This is a pre-forecl...

Jon L. Some Tips On How to Detect and Prevent Fraud at Your Rental
8 October 2020 | 0 replies

Here's what your should be looking out for at your rental property: 

Scammers will sometimes list a rental property that isn't their own on Craigslist or another open listing site that has vert limited restrictions...

Chris Turek All in one mortgage on investment property questions
1 August 2022 | 1 reply

I recently heard about an all in one mortgage.  I wish I knew about this early, it sounds like it wold have saved me thousands over the last couple years.  First, I would love to hear any all comments or advice in gen...

Mary Jay Can a fishy accountant get you in trouble with the IRS? And how to prevent it?
17 October 2023 | 8 replies

Hi guys,I have a question for you:I have an acquaintance who went to jail for tax fraud. He says another big business came to town and wanted to buy him out, but he refused. So that business sent a couple of accountan...