Was it a scam?
It was pretty chilly today, and never got out of the 50s. It was also cloudy and rainy, and I thought surely it would snow, but it didn't.
It was too rainy and wet to do anything to the Arctic Fox to get it ready for sale, so I simply put the living room slide out to give myself more room to work in there when the weather improves. Oddly enough, even though I haven't advertised it for sale yet or even put a 'for sale' sign on it, someone knocked on my door and wanted to know if I was interested in selling it. I told him I was. But he only wanted to give me about half of what it's worth, so I had to tell him I wasn't interested.
After he left, it started me wondering why he picked me. There are a lot of RVs in this neighborhood, and nobody knows I'm putting mine up for sale. Did he randomly choose the Arctic Fox to try to buy, or did he ask several RV owners in the neighborhood if they would sell their RV for half its value? It was strange, and years of experience has taught me that if a deal seems odd, it may be a scam of some kind.
Since I own property in Arizona and Colorado, I receive letters at least two or three times a week, offering to buy one or more of my properties for an outlandishly low price. They get the information on the properties from courthouse records which are all digitized now and can be accessed on computers, so they know my name and the location of the properties even though there listed under one of my limited partnerships, and all they're doing is sending out enough offer letters to the folks that own land, in the hope that somebody will sell them their property for pennies on the dollar. I guess every once in a while, they get a bite, and a fool falls into their clutches.
What they do is not a scam; they're just looking for someone desperate and in need of a few dollars, who is foolish enough to sell their property for almost nothing, or in some cases, the owners may have no idea what their property is worth. Fortunately, I am neither.
Theboondork...... Hard up, but not THAT hard up.
Oh, my oh me, what could it be?
It’s everywhere for all to see,
They’ve suffered no troubles,
They’re feeling no pain,
It’s just close-ups of flowers in the rain.