It's nice that there's some amount of public information, but it sucks that it's basically just normal people because the rich don't have to put PII on their filings and can use fake companies.

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[-] KoboldKomrade@hexbear.net 32 points 2 weeks ago

Some stuff might be publicly available because FOIA and "Sunshine Laws" (is that a term used outside of Florida?) are mostly about ruining all privacy.

You can google my name (Somewhat unique, at least in America) and see exactly where I used to live and my party affiliation because some boomer takes all the voter registration records and makes them public and google indexed.

[-] nothx@hexbear.net 24 points 2 weeks ago

I never understood why it’s so public. Why does everyone in the world need to be able to lookup my address just cuz I own it?

[-] hungrybread@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, this 100% happens. I've been getting texts and calls fopre-approval about 6 different area codes since applying for preapproval.

[-] nothx@hexbear.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

Once you complete the purchase you will start getting fake letters about you already being delinquent on your mortgage lol.

Good luck all the same though!

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[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 80 points 2 weeks ago

Also wtif, home ownership means landlords will make offers on your property and you can tell them to kick rocks and die? If I had a home I'd take a photo of it and send it to every development firm and landlord I could and ask for an offer just to reply with this. I'd take out a mortgage just to hassle landlords, fuck the house.

[-] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 74 points 2 weeks ago

It's not the landlords, it's some poor schmuck they're paying minimum wage to cold call all day. I guess you could try to move forward with the process to get to the people who are worth fucking with though.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 68 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"If someone wants to buy my house I would have to speak with them directly."

[-] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 47 points 2 weeks ago

nicholson-yes

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 48 points 2 weeks ago

Not even a remotely strange thing to say, if you were serious about selling you would upgrade that call. After that act interested and if you have time to spare, waste theirs. The longer they're on the phone with you the less calls they can make that day and that's less pulls at the slot machine.

[-] Llituro@hexbear.net 75 points 2 weeks ago

pretty sure that i saw here earlier that like 1 in 4 homes bought in the us recently have been bought by investors. i hate it here. normies in my circle are starting to radicalize themselves about it.

[-] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 38 points 2 weeks ago

"radicalize" probably means "we believe that this is wrong, but the only way to solve it is through voting harder"

[-] Llituro@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago

yeah, pretty much. vote harder, better laws, or harass real estate investment LLCs. the last one has some potential.

[-] Cowbee@hexbear.net 69 points 2 weeks ago

I would have gone with "the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry," but this is nice too he-laughed

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 45 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah all the landlords in my life I've explicitly just told my positions and why I think Mao had the right idea had no response. One of them even sold the houses he was renting out a few years afterward. Bullying (landlords) works!

[-] WashedAnus@hexbear.net 58 points 2 weeks ago

Ask them to pay a deposit to be considered. Ghost them immediately after they pay.

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[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 42 points 2 weeks ago

Someone cold called me. I said well I hope you're prepared to offer me another $100k on top of whatever you are going to offer me because I live here and all the single family homes in the area are starting at $350k.

Their response: well do you know anyone else ready to sell?

bugs-no

[-] Weedian@hexbear.net 41 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I don't even own a house and I get these calls and texts. It's kinda fun to lead them on and then tell them my selling price is 40 million dollars if I'm not busy. Or just send them pig poop balls

[-] booty@hexbear.net 41 points 2 weeks ago

I do this too. Gotta keep em on their toes.

I like the idea another user had though, just straight up be like "I've got too many prospective buyers, I'll need a $50 deposit to consider your offer" lmao

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 24 points 2 weeks ago

Genius tactician here. Can't hurt to try

[-] Weedian@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago

That's going in my toolbox now

[-] nothx@hexbear.net 37 points 2 weeks ago

For fucks sake.... the vultures.

My wife owned our first home for about 10 years and would have people calling and texting her at all hours, even straight up knocking on the front door trying to buy the house. It's so absurd the lengths these scumbags go to, it got to a point where we think the tactic is to try to wear ya down, especially as the offer keeps increasing.

[-] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 20 points 2 weeks ago

Just put a sign out front saying you will not consider any offer less than $1 billion

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 35 points 2 weeks ago

I encourage all Americans to invite these people round to discuss their offer then shoot out their kneecaps when they arrive.

[-] rando895@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 2 weeks ago

Or better yet, invite them over and challenge them to holmgang.

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[-] Oxycleanman@hexbear.net 32 points 2 weeks ago

has anyone ever proposed taxing second homes at 10,000%

[-] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago

At least in the US, most of Congress has at least 2 homes so they probably won't agree to it. But now I'm curious how many of them are in on this racket, too, and have 3 or more.

[-] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago

Soooo many local politicians are also landlords.

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[-] atyaz@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

We multiply your property tax by 1.2^n where n is the number of houses you own (including any companies you are on the board of)

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[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 29 points 2 weeks ago

Get his ass, Nicole

[-] roux@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago

I know a grift opportunity when I see one. I'll sell mine for $3 million.

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The other night some guy was tagging along with me after I left the bar, at one point he got to be annoying enough that I decided to removedhim by pretending to pull a knife on him but it was just a lighter. MFer almost shat himself and I wish I coulda taken a picture because his reaction was priceless. This is entirely unrelated to this post and I just thought it was funny. I am entirely unresponsible for how you use this information.

Edit: I have no idea how that got censored but it makes it funnier so I am leaving it.

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago

I'm assuming a word that's synonymous with ”to scare” but is also a racial slur.

[-] SpookyGenderCommunist@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago

Halloween lovers being oppressed by the Hexbear Slur filter

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago

That HIM song from Viva La Bam played in my head when reading this

[-] qaopjlll@hexbear.net 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

People who own homes should start buying each others' homes at a fraction of their estimated value to drive the market down. And then rent them to each other for the price of the mortgage so rental prices go down too.