The other day, I received a plain hand-scrawled envelope (with no return address) addressed to "Home Owner, <my street address>".
Inside was a badly done black & white 1/3 page 'flyer' stating:
"We will BUY YOUR HOUSE for $xxx,xxx.xx"
<with XXX,XXX hand-written at purchase price + $30K>
<picture of a stack of $100 bill bundles>
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All cash, any condition, 14-day close
or in 1 year No middle man or fees.
Call XXX-XXX-XXXX
or email
XXXXXXX@gmail.com"
A phone number, and a GMail address. Seems illegitimate to me.
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So I *understand* what's happening - someone (who's name I have thanks to internet phone number reverse lookup) attended a *seminar* of the variety: "Buy ugly houses for cash".
BUT... my understanding of the current "you too can buy ugly houses for cash" seminars is they're supposed to evaluate your house, and offer 0.70 (or 0.65) the anticipated SALE value of the house in question, less expected repair expenses. In my case, it would seem they're anticipating selling it for ~$200K more than I paid.
I thought they were supposed to send out something professional looking than: "Pssstt... wanna sell me your house?"
THIS 'flyer' looks like a kid did it on the library copier. It gives a bad image to real-estate investors. I was tempted to recycle it, but now I'm thinking there's a possibility of mail-fraud involved.
Suggestions?