Joel, this was a yield chasing gamble, and I did spread my bets.

It's not until after you send them the refund that your bank tells you the money order was fraudulent and you are out all that money.Military tenants are different, you can check them out and have recourse if they trash your unit.

This works for most transactions, but as mentioned above, it would be fraudulent to do it with a short sale given the affidavit the buyer typically needs to sign.

As a hypothetical: "Betty, who has a gambling habit, has been taking $x,xxx,.00 a month from 7 client's accounts through fraudulent invoices and payments to a fictitious company.

Your application seems to be missing something that goes a bit like this: I/We understand and agree that any missing information, or fraudulent or false or misleading information, provided on this application, is sufficient reason for rejection of this application.That would have rejected both of those tenant groups that you described.

He has written 2 fraudulent checks with stolen funds of another broker (me) to 1.

I agree with Rob...it's like gambling....you do what the precentages suggest...but you're always hoping for the one last thing to happen that will make you a winner.

They view options as "gambling"...really??

Not saying Ben may get lucky and find a DMV worker who knows their stuff but if I was a gambling man, I would not count on it.Bed I would ask around and search your DMV website or office for this: "Loss Of Interest Affidavit."

but I guess that's part of the gamble.