From Columbus REALTORS®

Tricia Segnini with A-List Realty reported that after her closing on 1/9/17, she received an e-mail appearing to come from her broker (but did not) stating that she needed to transfer funds. Her closing wasn’t mentioned specifically in the e-mail, but she felt it may be what triggered the bogus e-mail, which did list her broker’s name and his correct e-mail address along with a fake e-mail address ceomailme@mail.com. Tricia wanted to make colleagues aware of this scam. Please report wire fraud complaints to the FBI at www.ic3.gov.

This report and more details can be found here

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01/11/2017

Columbus Realtors’ offices will close at 4PM on Friday, December 30. CR offices will open for normal business hours on Tuesday, Jan 3rd, 2017

Schedule:
Friday, December 30, 2016 – Closed at 4:00pm
Tuesday, January 3, 2017- Open at 8:30am

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12/30/2016

Columbus REALTORS® offices will be closed on the Monday following each of the holidays of Christmas and New Year’s.  Offices will reopen for normal business hours on the Tuesday following each holiday, December 27 and January 3.

Holiday Schedule:
Monday, December 26 – Closed
Tuesday, December 27- Open at 8:30am

Monday, January 2 – Closed
Tuesday, January 3 – Open at 8:30am

Have a wonderful Christmas and New Year!

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12/19/2016

Columbus Realtors’ offices will close at noon on Friday, December 16 for the annual staff Christmas party. CR offices will open for normal business hours on Monday.

Schedule:
Friday, December 16, 2016 – Closed at 12:00pm
Monday, December 19, 2016- Open at 8:30am

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12/16/2016

Congratulations to our newly elected MLS Committee members for 2017:

Representing the 101-500 Listing Category
Ben Calhoon

Representing the 1001-3000 Listing Category
Holly Lockett

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12/12/2016

A vacant home in Dublin was being used as a shipping address by criminals who had stolen the identity of someone and were having their purchases sent to the house. The police are involved. Please take care to protect property/listings that are vacant. In addition to making sure all doors and windows are properly closed and locked, check on the property regularly. You can also notify neighbors and/or the police to keep an eye on the property.

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12/07/2016

Last night, eligible MLS Participants (Broker of Record/Designated REALTOR®) were sent a unique link to their online ballot for 2017 MLS Committee members. If you are the official MLS Participant (Broker of Record/Designated REALTOR®) for your company and did not receive this email, please contact vote@CRelections.com. Votes may be cast from Nov. 29 (12:00 a.m.) to Dec. 8 (11:59 p.m.), 2016.

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11/29/2016

The association headquarters will be closed on Thursday and Friday in observance of the Thanksgiving Holiday. The association will open for normal business hours on Monday.

Schedule:
Thursday, November 24, 2016 – Closed
Friday, November 25, 2016 – Closed

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

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11/21/2016

He’s back – David Gale Scott
This guy, who keeps making cash offers on million-dollar plus homes then walks away from the deals, is back. The agent who was going to show him her listing had a weird feeling about this guy. He was being aggressive and way too friendly over the phone and in text messages, so she mentioned it to another agent in her office to have the agent keep an eye on her via the Real Agent Guard app. When she told her colleague the guy’s name, her colleague remembered seeing the posts about this guy in alerts. He asked if she was married and had children…he mentioned bringing a female friend, but was hesitant to bring her, or she would want to move in to the home with him, haha (his words).  He was trying to be very flirtatious via text and the agent just kept ignoring and answering questions only about the home. Again, just another reminder for agents to be aware of this fraudulent buyer.

Tenant moves in to a HUD property listed for sale and claims to have a signed rental agreement
Vicki Shaffner, Saxton Real Estate, reported that she had went for a final inspection of her HUD property (which was in contract and scheduled to close the following week), and found that a woman had moved in to the home; stating that she had signed a rental agreement and paid the supposed landlords $2,000 in cash. The woman further stated that she had found the name and number of the fraudulent landlords (Patty and Richard) on a bulletin board at the BP down the street from the property. She also stated that they had drove her pass several vacant HUD properties before selecting Vicki’s listing. They handed her the keys and she paid them in cash. Vicki did check with BP and was told that they didn’t have a bulletin board. Vicki’s sign and lockbox had also been removed. Reports were filed with both the police department and HUD.

See these and more at: https://www.columbusrealtors.com/alerts/default.aspx

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11/18/2016

View the full obituary here:

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dispatch/obituary.aspx?n=rita-ann-fox&pid=182505130&fhid=8883

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11/14/2016