How to easily spot phoney real estate website

Augusta

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it is always of essence to avoid getting yourself scammed of your hard earned money when it comes to dealing with real estate agents. Some of these real estate scammers try to present themselves genuine to easily capture their victims. So You need to be careful with your money to avoid parting it to a scammer.

So how can you easily detect a phoney real estate website to avoid using any.



No company registration number

Know that a scammer can designed an official website which they do but what they don't usually have is the registration ID. So you need to make sure that the site is a registered company or have brand name with a verified company registration Number. To totally escape fraud don't deal with individuals in the industry.

Genuine real estate firms are always want show how real they are so they are always eager to publis their registration numbers on their website. So if you don't see any registration number on their company’s profile which is About Us on their official websites then skip such a company.


Email address on the website
Check the email stated on the site for communication.mske sure it has the company brand name like [email protected] is conveyed via the company’s. Skip those using a free email account such as Yahoo.


No stated Standard office address
Another clue is the website not having a standard office address that you can verify to be sure the real estate company is real. so skip sites with no permanent office address.
 
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