One might think "who cares, exposing the home to as many buyers as possible will increase my price as a seller," but many realtors are scam-artists and care more about getting paid faster than they care about another $10,000 in sales price (net ~$150 to the realtor - this was discussed in the book Freakanomics btw).

@Patrick Shawn Faherty be careful shopping around in too many markets - you leave yourself open to being scammed by a TK provider telling you this is a "great part of town."

You might have missed recent FBI public service announcements concerning what they view as FC scams, helping people in a FC.

You MUST cut out all wet areas, dry completely, and then treat with an anti-microbial chemical.

Someone else, in their mind, has already taken the risk that you will fix it up and get it rented and that it will appraise for $150,000 when its done.As far as the bank is concerned, if you're doing a rate/term refi and not pocketing any cash, there's less likely a chance that you're running some scam with an appraiser to take off with a bunch of money. 

My evictions where here in California, some say the most anti-business state in the union; but, I had to be very regimented in how I served docs and how I interacted with the court.

I always wish they just knew about Bigger Pockets before they got scammed into buying.Thanks and have a great weekend.

I think some people are getting confused between the 90 day Fannie Mae deed restriction and the Fannie Mae anti-flipping rule that used to be in place and some lenders still enforce.

I am curious to see if anyone is willing to admit getting scammed or duped by either a Guru or anything related to RE investing products that did not turn out like advertised?

Yeah, sooner or later it was bound to happen - we have an "Anti-Josh": :Dhttp://www.biggerpockets.com/users/SmallestPockets :roll: