print email comment close 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. 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