There’s been a lot of talk about shutting down the Federal Reserve Board from President Donald Trump even before President Trump’s 2024 presidential election on November 4th, 2024. The potential shutdown of the Federal Reserve Board talks is not decreasing but, on the contrary. There are more and more talking points about the potential fraud and political favors the Federal Reserve Board commits as well as the trillions of dollars the Fed prints. The Federal Reserve Board is known and has a reputation decades old that it works to benefit the big banks, Democrats, Black Rock, George Soros, high-powered politicians, and the liberal radical media. The Federal Reserve Board sets the monetary policy and has tons of power they do not deserve. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell thinks he is untouchable and President Donald Trump cannot fire him, nor can the President influence him or threaten him on how he should lead the Federal Reserve Board. President Donald Trump did express his advice to Jerome Powell that interest rates should be cut to firestart the economy despite soaring inflation and the depressing runaway U.S. economy. Jerome Powell ignored the comments from President Donald Trump and did not change interest rates. The U.S. dollar lost value and respect from countries around the globe 🌎 due to the Federal Reserve Board printing money and giving it to their friends. Can anyone please tell us viewers of GCA FORUMS NEWS about how serious it is abolishing the Federal Reserve Board and having the United States 🇺🇸 dollar backed by gold and silver? I am getting more confidence and respect for Elon Musk and the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in DOGE revealing and cracking down on the out-of-control CORRUPTION and FRAUD among federal government agencies and the hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money being wasted, stolen, laundered, and not accounted for until now, where it is getting discovered from President Donald Trump’s aggressive crackdown on public corruption and fraud.

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• This discussion was modified 1 week, 1 day ago by  Gustan Cho.

What is appraisal fraud.

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The Grapevine…

I have always liked reading weekly or daily columns by Earl Wilson, Herb Caen, Jimmy Breslin, etc. This will be the first of a weekly column, mostly about real estate-type businesses. Here are my two cents.

I heard that buying or selling a house right now is as difficult as putting a square peg in a round hole. All y’all know better than me. My wife and I have been working with a realtor in Tampa, Donna Davidson. Bless her Irish soul! She is great to work with. My wife and I found a house in Ocala, Florida, and called Donna with two other listings, all within ten minutes of each other. Donna was, at the time, visiting her sister on the opposite coast and said maybe if she called ahead to the listing realtor, that’s exactly what she did, and she spoke to Ortiz, who was handling one of the listings. Donna asked if he could possibly show the two others; his response was yes. ”We realtors have to stick together.” He was more than happy to do so and contacted my wife. They spoke briefly on the phone as I chimed in that I would give him $50 cash for his trouble. He agreed at 10 a.m. Friday morning, just before 10:30, the time we were leaving, to make the hour and a half drive to Ocala for a noon appointment. At ten minutes to twelve, he calls my wife—mind you, we are ten minutes away—and changes his mind. He now says he wants Donna’s 3% commission on the two other listings, and, get this, he wanted 6% on the house he was showing! He wanted me to screw my realtor broker and collect fifty bucks. Being the New York City boy as I am, I said, Well, you really don’t want to know, and I cursed at him like I was a drunken sailor who hasn’t been on shore leave for two years. We immediately made a u-turn and headed back to Tampa. I turned to my wife and said in my best mafia voice, “Now he’s got nothing.” I’m supposed to be buying from this guy and trusting him, and he’s screwing me even before we meet. I will only give you one chance to be trusted; if you fail, there is no second chance. He had a one-in-three chance of us buying his listing, plus he would have a crisp Grant in his pocket. Now he’s got nothing. Is this common? Also, while I’m at it, who determines the percentage rate for the realtor? Some realtors state 1.75% or 2%. What’s that all about?

Let’s get back to realtors: who do they work for? I am always confused about the buyer or the seller; they can’t sell a house without the owner, right? That’s where the cash is being generated. So they work for you, the owner. However, they play footies with the buyer, saying, “Don’t worry, we can get them down in price.” When my wife and I sold her previous house, we used. Nice people, so I thought they just wanted the listing. When we had a prospected buyer, I knew right away by the sidebar conversations that something was brewing and it was rotten. They asked me if they could have someone inspect the roof, and I agreed. The buyer brings one of his drinking buddies, wearing sneakers and a roofer. They ascended the ladder; they had no tools, had a little pow wow, and left without saying a word. People must think I’m a complete idiot; I am street smart! I have an IQ of 185 on the street! I look and sound like I came out of central casting for a mob movie. You are not pulling any wool over my eyes. Within minutes, our realtor, remembering the person working for me, calls and says in an excited voice, ”You need a new roof; the next strong wind will rip it right off!” I’m smiling and saying to myself, Are they for real? I responded to her, sort of like the drunken sailor, and told her to pick up her sign,For Sale,” which would be in the street. I pulled that sucker out of the ground as if it were a strong man’s cement or wood post and tossed them far in the street. They never came back for the sign, so I kept the 4×4 post and trashed the sign. So I ask again: who does your realtor really work for?

You heard it through the grapevine.

There are so many scammers in the United States. Every part of the country is invested by fraudsters at all levels. I know there are many different types of fraud and each type of fraud is stealing. Fraud is when a natural person maliciously deceives its victims by scamming their victims with the goal of taking advantage of the victim thus causing financial hardship. Common goals of scammers committing fraud is to take money, or assets of monetary or intellectual value or stealing private data, and information from you, your family, or your employer, or your business. Scammers commit fraud via email, text, phone or in person, either on the street or on your doorstep. Some adults may be especially vulnerable to fraud and financial abuse.

• This discussion was modified 1 month, 1 week ago by  Sapna Sharma.

America is home of the free where the people decide their representatives through el6ctions. Elected officials work for the people. It is the people who pay elected officials to make sure our tax dollars are spent frugally and wisely. Majority of Americans believe our tax dollars are being robbed by greedy government officials who seem to forget that taxpayers are the their bosses and the tax dollars is not their piggy bank to be wasted. Americans need to stop paying taxes and get a complete overhaul of the tax structure and audit where their tax dollars are being siphoned off to.

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