How to recognize home lease to purchase scams?
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Be very careful on land contracts-they are tricky.  I would make sure that you have a really good lawyer and ALWAYS make sure that the owner is using legal contracts that are supplied by the local board of realtors.  You also need to check and make sure there are no liens on the property against the owner-especially if it is new there could be construction liens if contractors weren't paid properly.
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Check all your credit cards and your accounts.  Check your credit rating.  Advise your bank about what is happening.  Respond to all these offers by letting them know that there is no such person at this address and that someone is using your address without your permission.
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zillo maybe bet your mortgage company needs to give you that info. CAll them
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you can get a letter report from a title company.  the tital company checks to see if there are any liens, etc. on the property.
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Depends what kind of scam it is. Call the police first and they'll send u to the competent authority.
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ask to the real owner
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There should be an economic crime unit in your county or state, where they investigate white-collar crime.  The easiest thing you can do is to get a form from them stipulating the breach of contract.  Then just mail via certified mail to their address.
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Alot get that stuff off-lease...buying at auction, or they 'know someone'.\n\nThere is a section on ebay for buying in lots. I don't remember the address, but there is a government surplus auction site (it doesn't cost anything - don't get sucked into a scam) where they sell stuff like that - pallets of used computers, lockers, cars, troop transports, etc.
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There is a nice little tool at www.scamomatic.com\n\nYou copy the text of the scam,paste it in the box,put in the address of the sender,and it will show you how you can prove it is a scam.\n\nThe information in the scam letter will be separated from the text and email addresses (not yours) and phone numbers will be put on a spam blacklist.\nAnyone that searches for the name of the scammer will be directed to a list of known scammer names.\n\nYOU as an individual cannot do a lot to stop these scams.\nBut as a society....we can do a lot!
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Look them up in the phone book.  That'll give you a pretty good idea of if they're legit or not.
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consumer watchdog handles scam
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I think your getting hosed. The federal government sets standards for tenants and landlords. You should have received a notice of some sort unless it states otherwise in your lease agreement. Be careful there are some really shady dealers out there and this one might be trying to slip one by you. If you have to contact a lawyer for further advice you might actually be able to find one to advise for free over the phone. Good Luck! J
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Mate, be warned. Don't let them in. Here, read this and follow the link to find many more on this scam:\n\nOn January 28th 2006, there was a young lady selling magazine subscriptions. I've always been leary about sales people at your door, I said I wasn't interested, but she persisted and I gave in. I ordered Dirt Rider Magazine for my boyfriend as a gift. I made out a check to SSA for 34.00 supposedly for that magazine and for a years subscription. He began getting Good Housekeeping Magazine at the end of April 2006. He has still be getting this magazine, but most are delivered ripped up, pages missing, and skipping dates and months. \n\nI went online to see if I could find a phone number for this company to ask what is going on, and I found this website while searching for SSA. Has anyone got in touch with these people? Any money back? Next time I will go with my instincts and not order anything from anyone at my door. I have moved from the neighborhood that they scoured and made money off of, and now I live in a place where they or anyone selling anything can't enter and if they do, the police are called and they are given a treaspass order and if they come back they are arrested. And it has actually already happened with two men trying to get into people's homes supposedly trying to clean carpets and when told I'm going to call the cops, they would high tail it out of here, but were finally caught.\n\nTricia\nWinter Garden, Florida\nU.S.A.\n\n\nhttp://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/ripoff195667.htm
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no they cant ask for additional deposits if you have a lease sounds to me like someone is scamming you ,call the head office and ask for owner or the person under him let him no what the manager is doing ,you can also go to the library and get a book called The Landlord and Tenant Book it has a lot of interesting things in it
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Try www.bbb.org\nBetter Business Bureau\nEven if the business is not listed, they give information on how to find scams.
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Find a sublet-er? Ask the lease holder if you can buy your way out?
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It doesn't have to be anything special.  I (your name)\ndo hereby withdraw the offer to purchase the property located at (address).\n\nThe problem is you can be sued.  You need to have a good reason to withdraw.  In my case I paid for a home inspection and the guy found a lot wrong with it...the seller agreed to fix everything and was in the process of doing so but i decided there was too much wrong with it so i wrote something to that affect and I was out of the deal.\n\nI did search for a more formal example letter and didn't find one.\n\nyou could try http://www.uslegalforms.com/