Posted on 07/24/2014 8:33:44 AM PDT by Red Badger
MIAMI (CBSMiami) — A South Florida renter came home to find people living inside his house but the family illegally squatting inside said they are not leaving.
The owner of the property on SW 5th street and 49th Avenue said his friend William Ruiz has been renting the house for the past two years and recently started to move out while the house was listed for short sale.
Ruiz went on vacation for two days and said when he came back, he found the locks on the house changed and strangers living inside using his belongings.
“They’re using his bed, his dining room table…all his ornaments,” said homeowner Luis Camayd over the phone.
The man who moved in with his pregnant wife and toddler didn’t want to be identified but said he was scammed by a phony realtor.
He said a lease agreement proves he paid $3,600 to live at the home.
The man, he said, he gave the cash to is no longer returning phone calls.
“I’m really stunned because the house was set to be sold already. I can’t sell the house until we get them out of there,” said Camayd.
“Well, yes....but you must admit she spoke Spanish”
Were we watching the same video? In the video that I watched the ‘on-the-scene’ reporter’s name is Fleischman. I could be wrong but I do not think that the name, ‘Fleischman’ is Hispanic. She spoke only English.
See Post #2
I saw one black haired reporterette that was speaking Spanish.
A guy here in Destin was doing the exact same thing! Scamming unsuspecting people just moving here from out of state.................
Somehow I don’t think the guy who ‘rented out’ the house was a real realtor................
They may have had the utilities put in their name, so he can’t................
You could hire a ‘house sitter’, but what if they refuse to leave?...................
Most important part of this story is that the house is “in a short sale”. This means the “owner/landlord” does not fully “own” the property which was “rented” to his “friend”.
And, since it is in a short sale the “owner” is the BANK. The Bank isn’t commenting here. The “owner” being the guy foreclosed on (assumedly, unless he is a proxy owner put there by the bank- since they do this nowadays so they will not have a “foreclosed” property on the bank’s books officially— really, they do this a fair amount, scamming the federal reporting system)— he was “renting to a friend who was moving out”... but then the friend goes on vacation in mid-moveout. Yeah, right.
The mysterious “realtor” is probably a buddy of if not the actual “owner” being short saled out.... and the dude needs cash. So.. rent it to fake renters for “cash” and voila!! Delay in the short sale. Someone had to have keys to get in, in order to change the locks. Which could also, btw, have been the BANK, for that matter. There are a lot of missing ingredients of fact here.
Maybe the bank did it to get rid of the “owner’s” renting pal in the interim since his occupancy may no longer be allowed.
Just a thought of several potential scams, or perhaps deliberate plans (by the bank). There are very entertaining comments on the cbslocal article, most of which are BS as to FL law.
The listing of ownership of properties as “street trusts” (for example on the tax rolls as, say “1234 Main Street Trust”) is a phenomena in a lot of places in the continuing disaster that is the real estate market (with the help of scammy Mae and scammy Mac). That and radio ads for TV “house flipper” wannabees. sheesh.
You’d be surprised. We live part-time in a small condo off of N Miami Beach. It’s a lot whiter than you think.
All parties, possibly even the bank doing the short sale, are hispanic.
Multiple possibilities as to the truth. The bottom line— when was the “owner’s” “friend” who was “renting” supposed to be out of the house? And indeed who is “moving out” and then goes on “vacation” in the middle of it? Really— where, on a gambling cruise for a couple of days?
Whole thing is BS, especially the “family” with prego woman moving in, in the same 2 days. How would any “realtor” know the renter was gone. This takes some teamwork,as in neighbor HOOD teamwork.
We responded to such an ad in cl but didn’t fall for it. this was 5 yrs ago in Renton, wa.
Question is— who put the new locks on the door? The bank that is doing the short sale on the “owner” who is foreclosed on and trying to get out of the place? Just a thought.
Where I grew-up the N-word was usually preferenced by a color descriptor because n-words come in all colors, nationalities or what ever you want.
I’ll bet the new locks were put on the door before the naïve tenant even moved in. Put there by the criminal scam artist - “Realtor”.
Shut off the utilities, especially cable TV and internet.
I catch your drift. But all it takes is for the supposed legitimately believing renter to be confronted with the actual owner, in person. If that’s not the case and they never saw each other, the third party ‘realtor’ is a criminal. The losing party here is the gullible renter, who I’d say is ‘undocumented’ in some way. Tough tooties.
Same here. It’s apparently a very popular scam. They post exterior pictures of the property on craigslist and advertise it as immediately available for some ridiculously low monthly rent.
I responded to one once, because it sounded too good to be true. I asked if I could meet them to view the interior of the house, but lo-and-behold, they were out of the state for the next few months and couldn’t meet with me. Sent me pictures of the interior - but none of the pictures matched up with what the outside of the house and low showed.
Offered to send me a lease agreement and keys if I wired them the money.
I ‘respectfully’ declined...lol
In my state, the utilities are paid by the renter, unless otherwise agreed to. The only entity that can place a lien on the property, itself, is the city for water/sewer. All other utility bills follow the customer. So, if I'm locked out of the house I'm renting, I call all utilities and tell them they're no longer in my name and to shut them off. Bet they get out quick after that. Note, I said if I'm the renter, not the homeowner.
“Where I grew-up the N-word was usually preferenced by a color descriptor because n-words come in all colors, nationalities or what ever you want.”
Huh? Did you watch the video of the ‘on-the-scene-reporter’? Are you saying that Ms. Fleishman is black? She looks whiter than white!
Who said anything about blacks? Certainly not I. ;-)
“I saw one black haired reporterette that was speaking Spanish.”
I am not talking about the ‘in-the-studio’ reporter. I am talking about the ‘on-the-street-in-front-of-the-house-in-question’ reporter whose name is ‘Fleishman’. If she is not Caucasian then I give up. The Spanish language is not restricted to Hispanics. Other people of the world are also allowed to learn Spanish. ;-)
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