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#Landlords #Evictions #Detroit
Fake Landlords Scam Detroit Residents For Over A Decade, Resulting In Evictions
Shout out to George Floyd on 543 days of sobriety. It took some tough love but he did it. Say his name liberals🖕
Grow up! Parroting nonsense is not cool!
We will all die some day. But you are suffering more than us because your heart is filthy. You think being in a corner of the internet and shouting nonsense is going to make you life better?
You need Jesus. Repent
Are we supposed to believe this phony network? Let’s go Brandon!!
He exposed now , let’s get em
TOO MANY DETROITERS ARE SQUATTING MOST HOME’S ATE OPERATED BY DRUG DEALERS AND SCAMMERS. ROCKET MORTGAGE HAS PLANS FOR REVITALIZING HOME’S AND BUYING HOUSES
Brandon: is a racist cyber disinformation and Radicalization group of loserse
Floyd police reform: will happen Brandon,I mean yall true racist cowards (Qanon/Brandon) who you think you scare
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Happens to me in Gary Indiana
They weren’t kidding about the most expensive Thanksgiving on record.
FU Joe Biden
This a result of banks not lending to minorities…
The owner of the home didn’t know anything about the home having a tenet in the home for over 2o years pls the owner was getting paid from the seller and the property taxes were being paid the utility were being paid you play as dumb as you want but I would and will always persevere the truth what it is it is your lieing the true deed owner
Duh the lived overseas
So how can they pay for the properties for many years, and the owners only show up after the property is supposedly paid for?
Maybe the owners are a part of the scam. Also you have to ask yourself.. how did she pay the rent .. by check, money order, cash? I have lots of questions
@UFT AP it’s shown in the report that she paid in money orders. She kept copies.
Because the housing market is so crazy right now many landlords are looking to sell. So, it’s a probability that the owner may have just had the property on their books to make their portfolio look good and now they’re looking to sell. That’s why I paste to have a licensed realtor to assist you with your home by needs.
Thank you. I was thinking that same thing. She paid a scammer for 10 years and the owner NEVER sent anyone to at least check on the property in all that time?? And now decide to just now let her know she doesn’t own the property AFTER she made the final payment? Something don’t seem right about this whole thing. This poor woman has my deepest sympathy. 😯!
The home owners are overseas Use your head
SO SAD ! HOWEVER I REALLY ENJOIYED WATCHING THIS BEAUTIFUL REPORTER !
These rental scams are bad in california. They list these houses on Craigslist and Facebook marketplace. A few weeks ago, I found at least 10 different ads on Craigslist that were rental scams. Craigslist and Facebook do nothing about it.
The renters and the judges are running a scam. They make more money by finding renters and kicking them out and keeping the deposits. and charging for extra cleaning. The judges own the houses and let a renting company handle these contract it’s a scam. Your city judges is running a game
The world is full of crooks.
With everything done on online These days, it is no surprising that everyone is getting scam. Please everyone if it sounds too good to be true than it is a scam.
For A Decade This Is Been Going On
Lawsuit For City Of Detroit
Brandon administration is taking notes on how to steal money from Americans so he can give it to foreigners
She needs to file a lien on the property for improvements
great idea.
Why should she do that?
@taylor 915 so she can get some of her money back.
Sucks
GO FUND ME !
These are the people billionaires like “oprah” elon musk gate etc should be helping
You can help and I can help.
Just out of curiosity describe what Derek looks like
If she has to move that’s just wrong . What is not the landlords fault unless the landlord knew about it it’s funny how they can never find the person that sold the house because they used a fake name… The landlord at the very least needs to repay her for the repair she made to the home. Otherwise she should leave the basement and sewage like she and remove anything she bought for the house.
This is beyond sad 😥 that poor woman she should be compensated.
I agree and she needs to get all of her money back.
Zinhle Essamuah 😘
Do not rent a house from anyone without checking to see that they are the real owners.. anyone can give you fake paperwork. Rent and rent to own can easily be a scam. Landlords ask you for your id and proof that you are who you say your are.. ask them for the same info and more. Check out the owners to they could be part of a scam also.
Sure. All liberal scammers
Don’t trust single word from msnbc,CNN or Amy liberal media
Everything is a scam if you do your research you will see. “The wool have been pulled over your eyes to Blind you from the truth.. what truth.. that you are a slave Neo” Matrix Movie
wow. this is terrible. hope they catch the bum and lock him up. he’s most likely doing this to a ton of people.
The government needs to do something about this stuff they need to check into these people these when people have the proof that they’ve paid the money and fix up the stuff he needs to be found he needs to be brought to prison and kept there for his many years is that lady paid on to that house especially when she has the proof
Now, that’s a bad day.
Happened to me right outside of Detroit nearly 10 yrs. ago. Dude came to my house claiming it was his. Long story short,somebody took him for $7,000.
A disgrace to human man kind .🙏🏾🎈
A disgrace to human man.🙏🏾❤️
Why would you ever sign a rental agreement with someone who only signs with their FIRST name? That’s common sense.
There redacted his last name.
Bull$hit
Same crooked crapbin Colorado, probably Nation wide
MAGA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nicely done!
This is how FREE MARKET CAPITALISM works. So sad to see ALL THE SOCIALISTS in the comments section. You have to be educated and UNDERSTAND THE SYSTEM. Hannity would be laughing in his $18M home and Don Trump JR would tweet how the LIBS were OWNED in this video. Educate yourself on the system!! MAGA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And to think this woman used to be homeless and hooked on illegal substances. If you are a millionaire, please buy this woman a home!
She couldn’t give a description on who to look out for?
Notary agents need to be questioned
You couldn’t pay me to buy a dump in Detroit.
Maybe use a lawyer next time
Scammers are the scum of the earth.
Man, I wish she spoke to a real estate agent, a friend or her children ( I guess that she didn’t have any). But rent to own strategies for purchasing a home are SCAMS.
This one of the oldest tricks in the book here in Detroit. They also make up fake deeds and sell houses to victims, so sad. These people really be thinking it’s their home until the bank is knocking on the door.
This happens so often, hard lesson to learn. Best of luck to her. It’s not just in Detroit especially scammed are the elderly.
It’s happening across the country.
Come on Detroit Land bank. If God forbid, this woman is put on the street. Step up and offer her some type of arrangement on one of the many vacant properties you hold. She seems to have a proven track record when it comes to home ownership.
🐑They just wont hold accountable property owners who summon a judge of a allegation and perjury in its attempt of the court in the state of pennsylvania they violate the Oath.
This seems like squatting to me. She even admits to knowing she wasn’t qualified to get a mortgage. And paid $550 a month out of a $700 check? Anyone living in the real world knows that’s impossible. The whole story just screams BS
This happened to my mother in Detroit.
Go downtown DETROIT before you purchase a home and make sure that person owns the property too people are scheming good working people out of their money.
This is just Sad! This needs to stop!!
You wanna scam people that don’t have alot! Shame on you ! You need to be caught and go to jail!!!!
Detroit is full of scammers
Its definitely happening in Detroit
It’s sounds like the City or the county needs to make a better system to prevent from people to get scammed like a certified site with housing information
Omg lord i pray for her, holy spirit keep mind and make a way and stop the person that’s scamming people in Jesus name amen.
I’m from Detroit was scammed more then once. It’s been going on for so long but I moved out of the statw