@Leila Jones,I wish you good luck as a realtor and when an investor contact you wanting you to show them proprieties make sure you ask to see their bank statement so you will know they are not wasting your time and have funds to close and be on the look out for fraudulent proof of fund's letter, and if they don't want to provide it let them waste some other realtor's time.

Depends on what his ad says, saying this property is for sale is true, if he's saying I have this property for sale, it's fraudulent, advertising RE he doesn't own or have any right to sell.

In the 1990s, the FHA witnessed this firsthand when teams of con artists began buying run-down houses, slapped a little paint on the exterior and resold them within days — using fraudulent appraisals.

Failing to disclose them to the lender would be fraudulent. 

If what they are saying doesn't match up with any spending you've done recently then check all of your cards (including any inactive ones) right away for fraudulent activity.

And seasoning is to mitigate a fraudulent renter/lease.  

And my banker said:  well you just bought 6 Tamahawks and your helping combat terrorists.. and I thought I was just helping section 8 with 5 or 6 families a year  LOL  anyone else get the big tax bill and had to suck up the big payment?

The best way to combat these is to have such high "cash flow," on the PFS that you can debt service the property you're looking to buy even despite worst case scenarios.

I also get a better price on LR sales, I'd never buy without any recourse, that's just an open door to accepting fraudulent paper.

How do you think we might combat the spread at that point?