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fromPadailypost
2 days ago

Woman charged in alleged scams to lease apartments and selling cars

Leslie Lucrecia Velasquez faces 19 felony charges for scamming at least nine people by falsely selling cars and leasing apartments, causing under $50,000 in reported losses.
Real estate
fromSFGATE
2 months ago

Key Questions To Ask When Renting a Home Before You're Surprised by Secret Fees

Renting a single-family home often carries hidden recurring costs—trash pickup, pest control, pool and yard maintenance, HOA fees—that renters must budget for.
fromCurbed
2 months ago

It's Stunningly Easy to Impersonate a Broker Online

At first, Sicari, the top rental broker at Douglas Elliman, who leads a team of six other agents, assumed the callers were clients. 'Oh, which apartment?' she'd ask. But the addresses they gave her didn't exist, nor did the prices: $950 for a Soho studio, $2,500 for a loftlike two-bed, two-bath in Greenwich Village, a Gramercy one-bedroom in a luxury doorman building for $1,800 a month.
Real estate
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