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David Saks is a musician, retired real estate broker, and long-time ActiveRain member. David's blog features important information relevant to the safety, integrity and security of the industry. In addition to his widely read real estate fraud blog, a comprehensive overview of real estate continuing education is a weekly addition for his subscribers and the ActiveRain community at-large. Thank you for subscribing to and for visiting David's ActiveRain home on the internet. Please join. Membership in ActiveRain will enrich your life !

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2008 

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                                                                                                             A lien is another name for the spleen, but we're not talking spleens here. Have you ever wondered what we mean when we say the lien is "statutory" ? Statutory liens are the types of liens ...
05/31/2008

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                                                                                                 Watch Out For These Things When You Suspect Mortgage Fraud Is In the Air : 1 Huge price adjustments that don't click with comparable market data with a request to alter the list price so that it refle...
05/31/2008

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                                                                       Map Source : FBI - Areas in red are the nations fraud hotspots. There is another nasty scheme we call "Fraud for Profit" which is sometimes referred to as "industry insider fraud" because it requires the cooperation of an appr...
05/31/2008

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                                                                                              "Fraud for Housing" in which a borrower provides bogus information regarding his or her qualification for a loan, is a wicked thing to do.  This includes lying about their income levels or their employme...
05/31/2008

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                                                                           Here it comes.... I know your sick of it....but hang on...it's refresher time just to keep you vigilant. Financial crimes are growing like poison ivy in Tarzan's backyard. Criminal activity in the United States is staggeri...
05/31/2008
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