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Home Buyers: Beware of "Flipping" Scams
URL: http://www.oag.state.md.us/Consumer/flipbrochure.pdf

Description:
This brochure alerts potential home buyers how to watch for house "flipping" scams in which "a flipper buys a house cheap and then sells to it an unsuspecting buyer for a price that far exceeds its real value." The flipper entices the buyer into purchasing by promising to arrange a home loan. Includes a list of questions to ask the seller. Opens directly into a PDF document. From the Maryland Office of the Attorney General.

LII Topics: Buying & Selling, Consumer Research & Advocacy, Home Buying & Financing, Housing, Real Estate

Publisher:
Maryland Office of the Attorney General

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Consumer education
House buying
Real estate business

LII Database Information:
Record 21162 created by Maria Brandt on 04/06/2006
Last modification on 04/16/2006
Published: 04/13/2006  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/21162

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