Apparently a lot of folks have been swindled lately.

She doesn't seem to want to swindle me into a bad deal, just looking to get a bit of her equity out in order to update another property that needs it as well as the fact that it is 30 minutes from where she lives now.

If your intent is to swindle the system and not live in the property, then you would be falsifying a document while trying to sway the it in your favor.

They may also feel you are trying to swindle them after you already agreed to buy at a specified price.

Attorney's criminal complaint against him.A Ponzi scheme is a swindle offering unusually high returns, with early investors paid off with money from later investors.On Thursday, two agents for the U.S.

I will second the idea of a new forum for swindling I mean using government $ for RE investing

They had effectively swindled mortgage companies out of 45 million at the time of their arrests. 

Gouging = An act of extortion or swindle Neither are exclusive to unfair competition laws, or lending, or to any large scale enterprise. 

Elise good to hear you didn't get swindled.

One issue is the bad folks out there that will buy these terrible properties and them sell them to un suspecting forigners who then get blamed for not maintaining their props.. when in fact they got swindled... :) but when your talking about 20 to 30k houses being over priced and no value then your talking about the worse of the worse in housing stock.. and I am sure these are ghetto type locations. or war zones.