If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.
I'm a broker in Blowing Rock, NC and here's a story about something that happened to one of the agents in my office. She had a $750,000 home listed for about 6 months. She gets a call from someone out of the blue, who was just browsing on Ebay and saw that the home that she had listed had just "sold" on ebay for somewhere around $250,000. Big surprise to her, and her client...we went to pull it up on ebay and sure enough there it was. Pictures, details, everything.
We contacted Ebay and the man who bought it discovered soon enough that the deal didn't go through. Isn't that crazy? Would you really just buy a home off of the internet without seeing it or doing any background on the person selling it to you? That just doesn't make a bit of sense.
Does anyone else have any stories of things like this happening? My guess is that it happens a lot more than we think.The internet has become a powerful tool for doing business, but there's more than enough liability involved as well.
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