Police arrest couple found squatting in Opendoor home with kids
An Arizona couple accused of squatting in an Opendoor house with two children have been arrested by the police.
Gary Lynn, 29, and Adriana Gamboa, 26, were spotted in a Chandler, Arizona, Opendoor-listed house with Gamboa’s two children when a prospective buyer came in to view the house.. he was charging his phone and she was bathing one of their kids. The other kid was running around the house wet.
With Opendoors app, you get a code for access to the house for an hour.
Redfin to publicly display buyer's agent commissions on its listings
Redfin believes that real estate consumers don’t really understand the way commissions work, and so they are doing something about it:
From Now on, all Redfin-listed homes will publicly display the commission that sellers are offering to buyers’ agents.
The new commission information will be included on Redfin’s website, and according to a company statement, it should “help consumers better understand the costs and incentives in the real estate transaction.”
The company conducted a survey of nearly 1,000 people in June, for example, and found that “more than half of recent homebuyers don’t fully understand how their agent was paid.”
Redfin argues in its statement that adding transparency regarding commissions should “stimulate conversations between consumers and their agents about what is fair and ultimately lead to more competition and lower fees for consumers
Five Guys Whose Brooklyn Real Estate Scheme Was Featured On “Million Dollar Listing New York” Just Got Arrested
Five real estate investors whose business was the subject of a major BuzzFeed News investigation were arrested this week for allegedly defrauding lenders and taxpayers out of millions of dollars in a scheme that targeted New Yorkers at risk of foreclosure.
The US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York charged the men with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud.
Two years ago, BuzzFeed News revealed how this group of investors turned properties on the brink of foreclosure into million-dollar listings sold on the reality TV show Million Dollar Listing New York.
Amazon dives into home sales with new $105K property
With 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, the new home dwarfs the tiny homes Amazon began selling earlier this year.
Months after a $7,000, do-it-yourself tiny home sold out within hours, Amazon is now hawking a 774-square-foot home on its website with a $105,000 price tag.
The latest offering is a three-bedroom, two-bathroom home. Titled “The Cliff” and manufactured by Estonian wooden structure distributor Q-haus, the property, which boasts an open kitchen, dining room and sauna, dwarfs the guest houses and backyard pool cabanas that previously sold on Amazon.
The home weighs 44,000 pounds and arrives in two modules that can be assembled by “two skilled workers,” according to the listing.
Furniture and appliances are also included.
Beverly Hills real estate agent suspected of burglarizing the homes of Usher, Adam Lambert
Keller Williams Beverly Hills agent Jason Yaselli is accused of conspiring with the thief who posed as an agent.
Yaselli, and Benjamin Ackerman were charged with using open houses to burglarize the homes of stars, including musicians Usher, Jason Derulo and Adam Lambert, former football player Shaun Phillips, and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills‘ Dorit Kemsley. Although Ackerman was arrested on suspicion of theft in 2018, investigators now believe Yaselli, who is listed on realtor.com as an agent for Keller Williams Beverly Hills, served as Ackerman’s accomplice in the crime spree between 2016 to 2018. More than 2000 stolen items have been recovered.
Lead-gen game changer: How to get 10,000 new followers in 60 days
Increased posting frequency
Post at these times: 7 a.m., 11 a.m., 3 p.m., 7 p.m
author and sales expert Grant Cardone once said: “People give in to the person they see the most.”
Solicited shoutouts
Ask bigger pages to send you a shoutout.. but follow these rules:
Do some due diligence on the page before you pay them for a shoutout. You want to make sure it has real followers (not a bunch of bots), and that it has good engagement. I look for two things:
Focus more on stories
Instagram Stories are one of the most engaged segments of social media today
Paid attention to insights
No rocket science here. I simply started paying attention to my post insights to learn what people liked and didn’t like. Based off these insights, I’m trying to put out content I have seen work well before.
Who would have thought? Give them more of what they want, and they’ll do the promoting for you.
Used more hashtags
I’m not shy with my hashtags. Instagram allows 30 hashtags per post, and I use them all. I look at it as 30 different entry points onto my page that I get for free. On every post.
I started using an app called Hashtag Expert to help me discover ...
