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Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Why You Should NEVER Have Your Paper, Mail Held Over Spring Break...

With respect to our law enforcement community who may disagree with me on this, from experience I will never again have my mail or paper held while I'm out of town. Over the years I've dealt with a LOT of homeowners who traveled frequently. About 4 years ago strange things began happening when several of them went out of town. Break ins, which were not altogether surprising, started to increase and strangers wandering their property who thought it was for rent became regular occurrences. If you haven't heard the stories, Craig's List has become a rental scammer's delight. The scammer finds a family going away, they place an ad, have interested parties go walk around it while the scammer (and homeowner) is 'out of the state' and says if they're interested to send him a deposit check because there are others looking. In that case the hook is it's ridiculously cheap to rent. Two years ago I had clients who told no one they were going away and this happened to them. They had their mail and papers held and later we discovered the day they left an ad appeared in Craig's list advertising their home for rent. The only people who knew were employees of those two institutions. Am I saying all postal or Star employees are con artists?  Of course not...but telling total strangers you're going out of town is an invitation for trouble. Get somebody to pick up your paper and mail you trust and leave the people you don't trust out of the equation. Now go and have a great Spring Break and please do something decadent that you can tell us about when you get back.  
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