I encourage all others who have been swindled or have had similar experiences to share them too and to submit complaints to the Better Business Bureau, Department of Consumer Affairs, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, State Board of Accountancy, Federal Trade Commission, Police Department’s Financial Crime Unit, and the District Attorney.

Thanks for the encouragement.

I encourage you to take a step back and make sure that you know the investment process, the market, and resources before moving forward. 

And, yes, a home inspection will also be strongly encouraged for any deal as a good home inspector can save you plenty of problems if they discover things during the inspection!

Hopefully, with some patience and creativity you can convince/encourage them to do the right thing and meet you in the middle.

I want to encourage people to learn.

I wouldn't encourage paying cash, everyone is afraid of the interest rates we are seeing but they aren't terrible.

If it's a great deal I encourage them to go for it! 

Thank you for your feed back, that is encouraging info.

4) Seek to help them solve their problem5) ask them what they need $ to get out of the house, and evaluate if you think that's possibleI'm learning to ask a tremendous amount of questions and am finding that I can keep the conversations going far longer than me offering my "insight", I'd encourage you to door knock these people and have a question based conversation so you can learn as much as you can about the property and make your decision on your course of action after that!