I'm SURE you mis-spoke and meant to say, he's a close friend that I am trying to help but it was not my intention to "fix his credit".Debt Relief and Credit Repair Scams"The FTC has brought scores of law enforcement actions against these bogus credit-related services, and the agency has partnered with the states to bring hundreds of additional lawsuits"SOME CASEShttps://www.ftc.gov/news-events/topics/consumer-finance/debt...Financial Education Services (August 5, 2024 )Panda Benefit Services, LLC., FTC v.

That's because the city won't calculate the actual amount till a structure is built, aka it's not just a plot of land anymore.This will obvious cause your property tax bill to go up and also your mortgage escrow account as well (sometimes these things can make your mortgage shoot up a few hundred a month). 

@Gamal Harding all pretty basic stuff.What makes you think a professional screening company, processing hundreds or thousands of apps each day, are going to catch fraud?

Those account records will identify hundreds of other victims. 

You’re going to spend hundreds replacing the fridge and then spend hundreds per year on bottled/filtered water instead of paying a plumber a couple hundred once?

So you could theoretically get into a house and end up leaving very little money into it in addition to having created tens of thousands of dollars or even hundreds of thousands of dollars in equity. 

We've helped hundreds of investors in the Metro Detroit area and are the only ones analyzing Detroit's 183+ Neighborhoods to ID the best ones to invest in. 

Not to rely on speculation, but it should get better over time (hopefully) not worse.If the marginal increase between the two options is only a few hundred bucks and that isn't worth a few hundred bucks to you, then maybe not worth it.

The quotes were only a few hundred dollars extra annually.

Any additional mail costs $.50-$.76 depending on the size... so to prevent you from having hundreds of $.50 charges on your credit card, the default "reload" is $50 (you can set this to whatever you like in the app).Hope this helps....