{"id":6232,"date":"2017-03-08T17:50:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T17:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ub.co.ke\/backup_site\/?p=6232"},"modified":"2017-03-16T16:07:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T16:07:17","slug":"10-tips-detect-online-real-estate-scam-use-scamdetector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ub.co.ke\/backup_site\/10-tips-detect-online-real-estate-scam-use-scamdetector\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Tips to detect an online real estate scam. Use this as a #scamdetector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Footnotes:<\/p>\n<p>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.<br \/>\nhttpss:\/\/twitter.com\/dnahinga\/status\/839329572776718337<br \/>\nI spared some time to turn it into an infographic. I am inspired by the thought attributed by Edmund Burke, that &#8220;The only thing necessary for the triumph of <em>evil<\/em> is for good men to do nothing.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, don&#8217;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. <a href=\"httpss:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&#038;rct=j&#038;q=&#038;esrc=s&#038;source=web&#038;cd=1&#038;cad=rja&#038;uact=8&#038;ved=0ahUKEwjKzsvisdvSAhXIL8AKHUTfBPUQqOcBCBswAA&#038;url=httpss%3A%2F%2Fwww.standardmedia.co.ke%2Farticle%2F2001232894%2Fsimple-homes-housing-co-operative-shatters-dreams-of-new-homeowners&#038;usg=AFQjCNHBHljBRbCt0H_WrVfh4tZFFTlt-g&#038;sig2=4GWRPpEHaFluSyHWnzx93Q\" target=\"_blank\">Simple Homes Housing Co-operative shatters dreams of new homeowners<\/a> (The Standard)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ub.co.ke\/backup_site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C6thMZ3WoAIfnMH.jpg\" alt=\"C6thMZ3WoAIfnMH\" width=\"688\" height=\"842\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ub.co.ke\/backup_site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C6thMZ3WoAIfnMH.jpg 688w, https:\/\/ub.co.ke\/backup_site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C6thMZ3WoAIfnMH-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/ub.co.ke\/backup_site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C6thMZ3WoAIfnMH-119x146.jpg 119w, https:\/\/ub.co.ke\/backup_site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C6thMZ3WoAIfnMH-41x50.jpg 41w, https:\/\/ub.co.ke\/backup_site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C6thMZ3WoAIfnMH-61x75.jpg 61w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>httpss:\/\/twitter.com\/dnahinga\/status\/838831466272411648<\/p>\n<p>This is becoming an epidemic that needs a concerted effort to contain.<\/p>\n<p>The vice is slowly creeping into Kigali after leaving Nairobi weeping.<\/p>\n<p>httpss:\/\/twitter.com\/AKenyanGirl\/status\/839011047474413568<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here is our little contribution to sanity.<\/p>\n<div street-address=\"96875\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\n(function(d, s) {\n  \/\/ CLICK MACRO AND CONFIGURATION SECTION\n  var destination = '%%CLICK_URL_ESC%%';\n  \/\/ DO NOT EDIT BELOW THIS LINE\n  var js, bjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.async = true;\n  js.src = \"httpss:\/\/ad.broadstreetads.com\/display\/96875.js?sa=1&\"\n    + (window.broadstreet ? 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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) &nbsp; 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 &nbsp; Here is our little contribution to sanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture","category-ujenzibora"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ub.co.ke\/backup_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ub.co.ke\/backup_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ub.co.ke\/backup_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ub.co.ke\/backup_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ub.co.ke\/backup_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6232"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ub.co.ke\/backup_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6246,"href":"https:\/\/ub.co.ke\/backup_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6232\/revisions\/6246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ub.co.ke\/backup_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ub.co.ke\/backup_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ub.co.ke\/backup_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ub.co.ke\/backup_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}