This stuff is getting out of hand, all across the country!........................
Gun....truck, tarp, dark road, night time... problem solved.
I watched the video. Wow! There are still Caucasians in Miami? Who knew?! ;-)
So produce the recipient of the $3,600 and sue for a refund. I can't shoplift freely just because I claim the merchandise was paid for.
This emphasizes the importance of working with a realtor you trust. If you skimp there, you will wind up paying for it.
This scam has been getting popular the past year or so. Watch until you see the owner/renter walk out the front door and slip in through the back. Have a locksmith on speed dial and you’re set. Free housing for at least 6 months until the owner gets a court ruling. Free eats until the food runs out. Free utilities for 2-3 months until it gets turned off and the owner’s credit is ruined. Free pocket change for selling off everything stick of furniture, grandma’s silver set and the kids’ ipads. And just think of all private info that can be used against the owner found in the desk and the mail.
He can start by shutting off the utilities and notifying the utilities of the situation to make it hard to get them turned back on. Without water to the residence, the city can then red tag that property as not fit for occupancy with a 72 hour notice to vacate. The police arrive and out there go.
A woman here in DC just got arrested for “renting out” foreclosed homes. She would drive around looking for empty houses that were in foreclosure, note if the banks were sending people by to take care of the property, and then, if they weren’t, she would break in, change the locks and rent out the house. She had all the fake paperwork for rental, and always demanded a large deposit plus first and last months’ rent.
Her big mistake was hanging around to collect the monthly rent as well.
The headline would be different if I encountered such a problem.
They were probably settled there by the Border Patrol —
A lawless land. In Nigeria there are signs on properties that say, “This house is not for sale.” Trying to prevent the same kind of problem.
The United States and Nigeria.... equivalency in lawlessness and leadership.
If you are not residing in a home for sale, do not list it with a sign in the yard.
If I came home from vacation and found people in my home it would never make Freeper or anywhere else because no one else would ever hear about it................
Most important part of this story is that the house is “in a short sale”. This means the “owner/landlord” does not fully “own” the property which was “rented” to his “friend”.
And, since it is in a short sale the “owner” is the BANK. The Bank isn’t commenting here. The “owner” being the guy foreclosed on (assumedly, unless he is a proxy owner put there by the bank- since they do this nowadays so they will not have a “foreclosed” property on the bank’s books officially— really, they do this a fair amount, scamming the federal reporting system)— he was “renting to a friend who was moving out”... but then the friend goes on vacation in mid-moveout. Yeah, right.
The mysterious “realtor” is probably a buddy of if not the actual “owner” being short saled out.... and the dude needs cash. So.. rent it to fake renters for “cash” and voila!! Delay in the short sale. Someone had to have keys to get in, in order to change the locks. Which could also, btw, have been the BANK, for that matter. There are a lot of missing ingredients of fact here.
Maybe the bank did it to get rid of the “owner’s” renting pal in the interim since his occupancy may no longer be allowed.
Just a thought of several potential scams, or perhaps deliberate plans (by the bank). There are very entertaining comments on the cbslocal article, most of which are BS as to FL law.
The listing of ownership of properties as “street trusts” (for example on the tax rolls as, say “1234 Main Street Trust”) is a phenomena in a lot of places in the continuing disaster that is the real estate market (with the help of scammy Mae and scammy Mac). That and radio ads for TV “house flipper” wannabees. sheesh.
The squatter guy changed the locks on the door BEFORE the owner came back. I don’t think “renters” typically change all the door locks on a house or apartment that they rent. His story is fishy.
This guy is breaking the law and possibly a liar to boot.
The owner can show HE owns the property, he never received any money from the squatters - the squatter’s paid money to someone who had no right to rent him the property. This is a no-brainer.
Yes, if what the squatter is saying is true, that was a terrible injustice done to him, but that does not give him property rights over the property rights of the owner (who had nothing to do with the injustice that occurred).
Hang the (probably phony) real estate agent. That kind makes us all look bad.