What about workmen's liens, you just bought them.If the first seller is in a scam, you can bet you'll need to prove you weren't involved and flipping to your buyer with a QCD will be hard to explain!

I'm not looking to buy right now, just learn, and this one screams scam to me.Do all good deals look like scams?

Apparently, several displaced people from the recent tornadoes have been hit by this scam.

I have educated many sellers that were being scammed.

If he's paying by check/money order they could be fake, I doubt it, but if you looking at possible scam it'd work.

No scam up front fees other then mandatory appraisal. 2.

I've been seeing a lot of offers to refinance at a rate of 2.5% for veterans, is this a scam or do any of you had a great experience with these offers? 

So many scams to seduce folks nowadays.

If this does turn out to be a scam of some sort, or even just a bad deal, then the borrower may well come after you.

Agreed give them a chance to own, since there payments will be lower once they qualify, also there are numerous reasons why credit falls and at time not of our own fault such as credit repair scams, but yes they do have to start doing credit counseling to manage long term