Home Owners! Watch Out for this Direct Mail SCAM!

If you are a home owner, you might have received a pretty official looking letter in the mail. It could have come from the “Recording Compliance Board” or the “Title Compliance Office”; I have seen a couple different versions.  I even received one in the mail!

It might ask you to send a processing fee anywhere from $140.00 to $160.00 to reconvey your deed or to order a copy of your grant deed.

Sure, it looks legit and official but don’t take the bait!  All they are offering to do is send you a copy of something that you can get for FREE!  Any of these documents are a matter of public record. Any Realtor® can obtain them for you.

For copies of your grant deed or any other recorded document, please contact me!  I would be happy to get that for you….FREE OF CHARGE of course!

See my Real Estate Reality Check about the real estate scam at www.fullertonstories.com.

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Cristal Drake - Prudential California Realty

Your Real Estate Resource!

Realtor®, CDPE, ID# 01272061

714-423-7525  

cristaldrake@gmail.com 

Cristal Drakeis a Fullerton Resident and Realtor® specializing in North Orange County foreclosure sales, equity sales and short sales. All information in her blog is believed to be accurate but is not guaranteed. Copyright 2009 all rights reserved.

Another Happy NEW HOME OWNER…ME!!!!!

Wow, what a whirl wind!  My husband and I decided to sell our house last July.  Lucky for us we were able to list, sell and close by September and still made it out in pretty good shape.

We decided to rent for a year to figure out our next step.  We started really looking again back in March.  We quickly noticed that in Fullerton, the good houses, priced right still SOLD quickly.  We (like many buyers I have) started feeling the frustration of not finding a home.

On July 3rd, a new listing came up in a neighborhood that I have always loved but rarely has a sale.  I found it about two hours after it was listed.  I called the listing agent, who happens to be in my office (score for working in a well known office that gets good listings) and said, “that’s my house!!!”  We made the offer on July 4th on our way to a bbq and just closed today!

There was a lot of other stuff in between like the current loan situation (you will hear more about that) but the moral of the story is, “your house is out there and will pop up when you least expect it so you better be ready to write an offer if you want it and make it one that can work for the seller!”

Homes in Fullerton seem to be selling.  I am seeing mulitple offer situations and this was no exception.  I am so glad that I didn’t go out of town like I was planning to or I would have missed out on my new home in Fullerton!!! 

Cristal Drake – Fullerton area Realtor – Re/Max North Orange County – 714-423-7525