The Internet...A Vast Playground for Scammers

The statistics of people finding their homes on the internet continues to climb every year and that is the good news. The bad news is that with more and more people using the internet to look for homes, it also is bringing out the scammers in full force preying on those good-intentioned people.

Article after article say that the internet is a great place to begin your research, but you had better not assume that just because of all the power you have at your fingertips, you should attempt to do everything yourself. There have been many fraudulent homes listed for sale on the internet that do not exist and people have sent money to ‘hold’ those homes only to find later that their money is gone. It’s just like the Nigerian email scam, and yet despite all the warnings, people still fall for it.

The bottom line if you are a home buyer or seller, you had better have an expert in your pocket to guide you along the way and that expert should be your trusted real estate professional!

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