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Florida

snowybirdie

(5,607 posts) Fri Feb 3, 2023, 08:46 AM Feb 2023

Anyone know

why we're seeing lots of ads for home sales here in SW,Florida? They all offer to buy your house outright quickly. I'm fearing these realtors will create a very different market than we have now, namely more renters and less owner occupied communities. Hurricane has apparently brought them out big time.

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Anyone know (Original Post) snowybirdie Feb 2023 OP

It's not just the hurricanes. lark Feb 2023 #1

Money laundering and flipping Tetrachloride Feb 2023 #2

LOTS of foreign money buying real estate in Clearwater too... Sancho Feb 2023 #3

Those buyers are looking for cheap properties. We've got them here in N FL, too. n/t allegorical oracle Feb 2023 #4

lark

(24,122 posts)

1. It's not just the hurricanes.

Reply to snowybirdie (Original post)

Fri Feb 3, 2023, 09:08 AM

Feb 2023

We haven't been hit bad by a storm in years here and we see these ads every day. The oligarchs are out in full force to steal from the working class. They offer a fraction of the home cost to take advantage of desperate folks, they are a total scam. I get these calls and text messages pretty much every day and I'm not selling my house.