221 Cannon is Not For Sale

Posted by mecredis 3 days ago

221 Cannon is Not For Sale(fredbenenson.com)

316 points | 271 commentspage 4

stackedinserter 3 days ago|

You know what? Fuck this guy. And that one who found a 4-bedroom house on his land that he haven't used for decades.

They didn't do anything with their land and doesn't have any plans for it for the foreseeable future. It's not like a snowblower that sits in your garage unused. It's land, a piece of planet. If you own it, you should use it for something. If you don't, return it back to people.

teeray 3 days ago||

Periodic reminder that "identity theft" is the financial system gaslighting you into thinking their poor decisions are your fault.

alexjm 3 days ago||

We don't even need the term "identity theft". We already have a perfectly good word for than: "fraud".

Analemma_ 3 days ago||

This is a Mad Libs autopilot reply which has nothing to do with the article.

ElevenLathe 3 days ago|||

I wouldn't say it has nothing to do with the article. A real estate agent selling your land on behalf of someone that isn't you is roughly analogous to a bank giving credit in your name to someone who isn't you. Either way, someone who isn't you got scammed by someone else who also isn't you, but somehow this is your problem.

fortran77 3 days ago|||

That's why I downvoted and flagged it -- along with your content-free response.

MarginalGainz 3 days ago||

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juancn 3 days ago||

    Like most people, I’ve had my identity stolen once or twice in my life.

Huh? It's not as common. I don't think I've been victim of it ever, unless it's way more common in some other countries?

Much less on a property deal where identity and ownership are heavily scrutinized.

clarkmoody 3 days ago||

The FBI won't get involved unless it's politically advantageous.

IhateAI 3 days ago|

This doesn't make sense, earnest money would be in escrow until the title clears. The scammer would never have access to the earnest money, nor would it ever get transferred to them unless the buyer took too long to close, or didn't come up with funds?? Like the title company would almost have to be involved for this to work.

rationalist 3 days ago||

The title is often actually transfered, and it is a mess to clean up.

You could walk into a court house and submit paperwork for filing, that transfers the title - all without any kind of sale or verification. It happens.

IhateAI 3 days ago||

Hmm, I guess you technically just need to convince a notary that you're the seller and with virtual closings/ mobile notaries I guess that's probably pretty easy.

But still the scammer would never see the earnest money, unless the buyer backed out outside of an option period for whatever reason. Presumably they wouldn't if the land is cheap, and they've agreed to pay cash and put earnest money down.

WillPostForFood 3 days ago|||

The scammer isn't trying to get the earnest money, they are trying to get the full sale price.

IhateAI 3 days ago|||

Well yes, I assume that too. But the article says they'll pocket the earnest money which makes zero sense. Probably another example of someone incapable of writing an article by themselves and used an LLM.

>"7. If they get farther they’ll pocket the earnest money deposit which would have been significant in my case."

phendrenad2 3 days ago|||

Is there a single case of the scammer getting a single dollar from one of these scams? My suspicion is that there isn't. (Everyone who doesn't know the answer and isn't curious should downvote me.)

InitialLastName 3 days ago|||

The global freight carrier storefronts around me all have notary services. I used them to notarize the documents from my last home sale; they glanced at my ID to the extent that they checked it matched the name on the paperwork, and signed off on it.

phendrenad2 3 days ago||

Yeah I wonder if this entire "scam" is a scammer's urban legend, where one scammer brags that they successfully executed it and all the rest try it a few times and eventually give up. Sort of like the search for pirate gold.