Your mortgage broker and realtor in a race to sell every scrap of PII they have about you to every scammer under the sun
Our info is so insecure that the public records associated with recording a deed are more than enough for the floodgates to open up.
You can literally pull up every bit of information you need on someone directly in a map on a county portal if they own a home.
Including all publicly filed documents like divorce, alimony, marriage, etc.
It’s nice that there’s some amount of public information, but it sucks that it’s basically just normal people because the rich don’t have to put PII on their filings and can use fake companies.
Some stuff might be publicly available because FOIA and “Sunshine Laws” (is that a term used outside of Florida?) are mostly about ruining all privacy.
You can google my name (Somewhat unique, at least in America) and see exactly where I used to live and my party affiliation because some boomer takes all the voter registration records and makes them public and google indexed.
Oh, this 100% happens. I’ve been getting texts and calls fopre-approval about 6 different area codes since applying for preapproval.
Once you complete the purchase you will start getting fake letters about you already being delinquent on your mortgage lol.
Good luck all the same though!
I would have gone with “the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry,” but this is nice too
Ask them to pay a deposit to be considered. Ghost them immediately after they pay.
That still might be illegal in a more liberal state if you never intended to sell.
For fucks sake… the vultures.
My wife owned our first home for about 10 years and would have people calling and texting her at all hours, even straight up knocking on the front door trying to buy the house. It’s so absurd the lengths these scumbags go to, it got to a point where we think the tactic is to try to wear ya down, especially as the offer keeps increasing.
I don’t even own a house and I get these calls and texts. It’s kinda fun to lead them on and then tell them my selling price is 40 million dollars if I’m not busy. Or just send them pig poop balls
I do this too. Gotta keep em on their toes.
I like the idea another user had though, just straight up be like “I’ve got too many prospective buyers, I’ll need a $50 deposit to consider your offer” lmao
