KAPOWICH REAL ESTATE - Sunnyvale, CA 94086 - Silcon Valley Broker Video

In January, we taped another program in our series of Elder Financial Abuse.
The topic was Predatory Mortgage Lending Practices. Months later, all the media
were buzzing with the mortgage crisis of sub-prime lending, predatory practices and
foreclosure rescue scams. All of the attention was […]

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Buyer Beware?! What About Seller Beware?
How Sellers and/or their Licensees ask for Trouble
These licensees have literally been trained to set up tripods
with blown-up neighborhood maps, color coding the sales in the
area, in order to gain new buyer and seller clients. Yet, they
convince the seller that all this extra work is for them, the seller!
Setting up […]

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Excerpted from the San Jose Mercury News, SJMN
Market Wise Column
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Q: We sold our home in 2005 and are now being sued by the buyers. We were referred to a real estate attorney. When we told him the name of the attorney representing the buyers, he responded nonchalantly, “Oh, I know him, […]

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Buyer Beware?! What About Seller Beware?
How Sellers and/or their Licensees ask for Trouble
These licensees have literally been trained to set up tripods
with blown-up neighborhood maps, color coding the sales in the
area, in order to gain new buyer and seller clients. Yet, they
convince the seller that all this extra work is for them, the seller!
Setting up […]

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Q: We were referred to a top agent whom we spoke on the phone and really liked. However, when we arrived in town, her husband met us instead and we never heard from her again. We found a house that we liked and signed a contract with him […]

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Part 2
Douglas Cole, National Defense Investigator 2007 - U.S. Courts
Cole advised how honest licensees can help protect themselves when
unknowingly representing dishonest parties. He stated, “Take your time
to fill out the forms.” (Which of course, is a lost art). He added,
“Make sure all of the boxes are checked.” (Also, another Standard […]

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(Nov. 2006) To the Editor:
LEGAL REAL ESTATE SCAM
Whoever titled Sue McAllister’s Cover Story 10/28 titled “Real Estate industry reaping cash from online house-hunting” misled the public.
The realty industry pays the often unlicensed and/or out-of-state “internet lead-generation industry” for leads. Their industry’s phenomenal marketing is two fold: 1) TV, Print, Radio & Internet ads […]

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Since the late 80’s, I’ve notice in trend of incomplete disclosures and poorly trained licensees. No doubt there is a connection.
Real Estate Attorney Roger Wintel, of the Hertiage Law Group, has often spoken about the problematic lack of disclosures and unsupervised and/or poorly trained licensees.

Click here for the consumer-protection cable series, Kapowich on Real […]

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Part 1
Beware of the Licensee Who Plans to Turn Your Entryway Into a Their Promotional Kiosk
These licensees have literally been trained to set up tripods
with blown-up neighborhood maps, color coding the sales in the
area, in order to gain new buyer and seller clients. Yet, they
convince the seller that all this extra work is […]

[Read more →]

KAPOWICH REAL ESTATE - Sunnyvale, CA 94086 - Silcon Valley Broker Video

In January, we taped another program in our series of Elder Financial Abuse.
The topic was Predatory Mortgage Lending Practices. Months later, all the media
were buzzing with the mortgage crisis of sub-prime lending, predatory practices and
foreclosure rescue scams. All of the attention was […]

[Read more →]