Currently reading The Go-giver, having just finished Traction and Rocket Fuel, with 40+ more on the list.

I'd say if they can't be open and honest at least before the funds are exchanged, then don't deal with them.What isn't rocket science is how to find notes.

its only been the last 25 years or so that the bay area ( I was raised in Cupertino and my parents paid 32k for their home). were price's sky rocketed ...

@Joseph Weisenbloom, not on your list and maybe too far but I think San Marcos is a rocket ship.

Throughout the past couple years i've noticed first hand the prices of homes sky rocket in California.

Basic economics took hold, mass demand, low supply, prices rocket. 

It's tedious, but not rocket science.

Have a great time on BP, there's people in every conceivable niche, and from all types of backgrounds, from service work to rocket scientists!

This caused prices to sky rocket quickly.

They will then simply track your gf's income and where it goes, a 2k paycheck is simple to account, what cards they paid, what's left in bank, and if there's an extra 3k on the bills paid, then it wont be rocket science for anyone to guess where it comes from.The thing is simple, either it is legal or not, what you think is irrelevant, it is not other types of illegal activities where you are innocent until proven guilty, once fraud is imposed, you are guilty until proven innocent.