10 Tips to detect an online real estate scam. Use this as a #scamdetector

Footnotes:

Early this morning, i felt the need to draft a series of 12 tips that an ordinary man can use as a detector to avoid the prevalent real estate scams mushrooming online.
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I spared some time to turn it into an infographic. I am inspired by the thought attributed by Edmund Burke, that “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

I hope all the good people out there, both in the built environment and outside will use this as a detector of sorts. There may be more pointers but let us continue the conversation online and offline. Let us all strive to build a better society.

By the way, don’t underestimate the power of prevention. Last week, we heard a report that a scandal by Simple Homes has one under after 16,000 or more Kenyans had invested millions of shillings. Simple Homes Housing Co-operative shatters dreams of new homeowners (The Standard)

 

httpss://twitter.com/dnahinga/status/838831466272411648

This is becoming an epidemic that needs a concerted effort to contain.

The vice is slowly creeping into Kigali after leaving Nairobi weeping.

httpss://twitter.com/AKenyanGirl/status/839011047474413568

Here is our little contribution to sanity.