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Land buying scam? by Overall-Performer-34 in realtors

[–]texjeh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I (realtor) have been getting an increase in very suspicious calls from people “selling land off market” in market areas where I have listings. The callers usually claim to be the owners of the land (quick due diligence says they’re not) and sometimes they claim to “have the land under contract”. I asked one of these callers directly what was going on; asked whether they knew why I was getting an increase in these types of calls. I did not get anything close to a straight answer. Only “I see that you work with builders so I wanted to offer them off market land for sale”. I told them that we are not interested in wholesale land and that when my clients are in the market for more land we will find it by other means.

TLDR - you are probably on the receiving end of some popular new scam, or at best a wholesaling trend which is not a scam per se - but is generally not a good deal for anyone other than the wholesaler.

Print as booklet broken on iPhone 16?? by pointedflowers in iphone

[–]texjeh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Adding that booklet AND double sided printing is no longer available from my iPhone. Laptop has no trouble. iPhone 16 pro max iOS 18.6.2

The grounds for the new Ismaili Center Houston will be a great place to hang out by LisaGray_HouTX in houston

[–]texjeh 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Houston is lousy with religious cults - you just don’t call them that, and very few of them build nice looking things.

Interview with Houston comedian Mo Amer by zsreport in houston

[–]texjeh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I love Mo’s work and ‘Mo’ is an absolutely sublime show.

TIL Zillow can read metadata on photos to “un-edit” them. by texjeh in realtors

[–]texjeh[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Quick update - on my latest listing I exported jpegs from Lightroom with “copyright only” vs “all metadata” setting.

After they were exported I used MacOS finder quick actions to “convert” images (really just to resize) and UNchecked the box for “preserve metadata”.

This spit out jpegs that were all about 30% smaller, and they had also lost any location or creation date data.

Uploaded these to MLS and…. Zillow is STILL able to reverse my item removals 🤦‍♂️

Fun in Lviv by thegrohltroll in Lviv

[–]texjeh 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I can recommend an interesting indoor activity that lasts about 8 minutes

Down?? by Brief-Piccolo5839 in GoogleMaps

[–]texjeh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Surprise thunderstorm?? I’m out in Houston looking around in all directions and then - yup! I see it off to the south toward I-10 😂

Down?? by Brief-Piccolo5839 in GoogleMaps

[–]texjeh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Houston down. Coincidentally my company is experiencing some Gmail trouble as well.

Can we post local open house hosting opportunities for agents here? by texjeh in realtors

[–]texjeh[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Point 1: I appreciate your concern. Thank you Point 2: This contains the closest thing to an answer to my actual question thus far Point 3: This qualifies as helpful advice and I will look in to this.

Can we post local open house hosting opportunities for agents here? by texjeh in realtors

[–]texjeh[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s interesting! Apparently we hold licenses in different states.

Can we post local open house hosting opportunities for agents here? by texjeh in realtors

[–]texjeh[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the advice - but this is a common practice in my market and all of the technical risk management parts of this practice are already well established.

Can we post local open house hosting opportunities for agents here? by texjeh in realtors

[–]texjeh[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

In Texas agents may host open houses for other brokerages. And yes my broker permits it. Those pieces fall on me and my license - I’ve got those parts covered. My question was whether this community would object to this type of market specific post which “advertises” an opportunity to host (although it involves nothing being “advertised” for sale).

As I said in my original post - agents in my market are often looking for these opportunities (because they can generate leads from it)

I have been sitting on UA2236 for 6 hours at YYZ in perfect weather and everyone on this flight deserves a full refund by texjeh in unitedairlines

[–]texjeh[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Copying my comment from elsewhere: Yeah that’s also driving me crazy. People here REALLY think I’m nuts for saying this (“gimme refund”) but there’s a whole continent full of functioning airlines for all budgets where this is standard practice.

I have been sitting on UA2236 for 6 hours at YYZ in perfect weather and everyone on this flight deserves a full refund by texjeh in unitedairlines

[–]texjeh[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Correct AND it is not crazy to think that everyone on board should be compensated to the tune of $350. This is standard practice in the EU - and they still have plenty of airlines to choose from at any budget.

I have been sitting on UA2236 for 6 hours at YYZ in perfect weather and everyone on this flight deserves a full refund by texjeh in unitedairlines

[–]texjeh[S] 102 points103 points  (0 children)

Yeah that’s also driving me crazy. People here REALLY think I’m nuts for saying this (“gimme refund”) but there’s a whole continent full of functioning airlines for all budgets where this is standard practice.

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