Dee Smythe
Costa Hawkins questions - San Francisco
7 January 2018 | 2 replies
Protect condominiums, houses and newer buildings from RENT CONTROLProtect your property from expansions in rent control like the notorious LAHD HCIDLA (new LAHD that they changed the name for due to scandals and spending tax dollar money ) REAP Rent Control Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles HACLA Housing Authority of the City of Los AngelesCASE AGAINST RENT CONTROLhttps://fee.org/articles/the-case-against-rent-control/https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/08/economist-explains-19
Bill Gulley
LIBOR RATES MANIPULATED!
11 July 2012 | 21 replies
. -- it's a pretty big stories overseas, I hear)...as far as I'm concerned, this is probably the biggest banking scandal since 2008, and maybe ever.
Corey Dutton
Two Bank Cartels Connected to Euro Libor Scandal
22 October 2014 | 1 reply
The European Commission, in its investigation of the Libor scandal this year has uncovered two international banking cartels that were used to influence the Libor benchmark interest rate and set bid-ask spreads.Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) was given immunity by the Commission for revealing the existence of the first banking cartel.
Ross Denman
New to BP in Indianapolis, IN
10 February 2021 | 16 replies
He ended up being scandalous and I ended up losing most of the money that I had made.
Dean Letfus
International Investors be careful who you deal with!
12 January 2017 | 16 replies
The rest never got their documents because they were told the documents would all be posted online on the company's website.It never happened.In Indianapolis, Ms Tan's company popped up in county land sales records of 2013 as the buyer of at least 18 low-priced homes in Center Township.These purchases stood out, because at least eight were sold by non-profit group New Day Residential.In May 2013, the president of New Day Residential was among five people charged in a kickback and bribery scandal involving vacant homes sold by the city-run Indy Land Bank.FRAUDOne John Hawkins pleaded guilty to wire fraud in an alleged scheme to reap kickbacks from the sale of abandoned properties last June.On Sept 2013, The Indianapolis Star reported that CTL Global Holdings had already resold some of its Indianapolis properties "at prices sharply higher than it paid for them to buyers with Asian names".For instance, records in 2013 showed two side-by-side houses bought by CTL were sold by the Land Bank to New Day for US$2,500 (S$3,390) in March.They were resold that same month to CTL for US$10,000 and in April, CTL "flipped" the houses for US$38,334 each to the current owners.Both homes remain unrenovated.How their troubles started"The first sign of trouble was six months after, when the property management company engaged by CTL started communicating directly with us, the investors," said Mr Kenneth Ng.The property management company in question is in the US.Mr Ng's troubles were echoed by many other investors and The New Paper on Sunday met with seven of them on Jan 24.A 60-year-old investor told TNPS on Friday that he bought two properties in Indianapolis and paid in full, spending about $100,000 in all."
Austin B.
Need advice on "best option" for my situation
3 April 2022 | 18 replies
Things have just started to move up after the "Lava Jato," Car Wash, Billions of Dollars Kickback Scandal that put 500 Politicians and the President in Jail.
Elizabeth M Williams
How Psychology Impacts our Investing
19 September 2021 | 8 replies
You turn on the news, log into Facebook, Twitter, or IG, and can easily be bombarded with the latest scams, scandals, crimes, threats, tragedies, all of which further reinforce our confirmation bias.As it pertains to real estate investing, there will always be a naysayer, telling you you’re making a mistake, telling you all the things that could go wrong, when in reality, we all know that real estate runs in cycles, and is a time-tested asset class.
Reagan Grant
Acquiring houses in a housing boom
18 January 2022 | 5 replies
So, how do you BRRRRR and buy-and-hold in a scandalously hot real estate market?
Solomon Floyd
Always Be Diversifying!
3 November 2022 | 9 replies
My issue with public REITs, like @Mike Dymski said, is that their value is impacted by CEO scandals, wars in Europe, random tweets and the mood on Wall Street.
Marcelo Gamez
El Paso Home Buyers scandal.
8 June 2016 | 2 replies
Will this scandal end up shedding a bad light on investors?