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Christopher Middleton Life Insurance used as a bank account
21 March 2016 | 55 replies
This scheme might sell books or tapes/cds, but life insurance companies are not set up to be banks.
Tony Severino 3 Foreclosure Sites Ordered to Cease and Desist
6 May 2009 | 10 replies
seven charged in 20 million mortgage fraud scheme
Nick J. Google Wave
14 September 2010 | 7 replies
I've seen promo video on this, and can see how it would be effective for communicating with large groups, but not convinced it will catch on in the grand scheme of things.
Ben Payano $800 Negative Cash FLOW Per Month Should I Still Hold?
12 September 2018 | 125 replies
Maybe you still have the time to get it all worked out, maybe you can at least start and finish up after you move, or maybe you are out of time and can't pull off such an elaborate scheme until after you move.Again, only you know all the variables of your current situation and so it's on you to make the final call.
Nick Belsky Do Private Lenders Do Something Like This?
11 June 2021 | 11 replies
The BRRRR method you describe is a get rich slow scheme, but you have a property that cash flows with little of your own money down.
Account Closed SUB2/WRAP DEALS = GOING TO PRISON!!? :(
29 June 2018 | 66 replies
were this hits folks is when they try this scheme and they are under capitalized and when they default ( end buyer)  or tenant stops paying and trashs the house they cant pay the underlying because they were counting on the payments coming in.I rescued a company a few years back in Oregon that did about 40 of these. problem was their end buyers started defaulting and because the Delta was only a few hundred a month on the good ones.. 
Kay Lyn Living in California. Should I form my LLC in Wyoming??
14 November 2022 | 27 replies
Courts may look through that scheme if you are just trying to screw people out of their right to sue you when you do something incorrectly. 
Joe Ward HELP! Young potential Protege looking for an Honest Mentor (local/online) in the Chicago-land suburbs, REI Club suggestions and ADVICE please
29 July 2009 | 11 replies
The dirty little secret about the real estate investing business is that it's one of the many get-rich-quick schemes (along with MLM, stock trading, currency trading, etc).
Account Closed Self-Directed IRA Investment Criteria
25 July 2016 | 1 reply
., ponzi schemes) as IRAs and 401k plans have always been targeted by fraudsters because retirement accounts are long-term saving vehicles, so many investors fall prey into thinking their investment is growing based on a paper statement.See the following: https://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2015-121.htmlhttps://www.sec.gov/News/PressRelease/Detail/PressRelease/1370539791027https://www.sec.gov/news/press/2010/2010-33.htm
Coty C. Breaking the Tenant Screening Standards
27 September 2018 | 18 replies
So I think the two jokers were trying a identity theft scheme on me.