Episode description

Whether you’re buying or selling residential real estate today, it is so very important to work with the right real estate pro. How do you know which one is the right one?  That’s the topic for the first segment in this week’s Your Valuable Home, and we’re going to get right into it with Joe Bonacci, a realtor in New York City and a good friend of Your Valuable Home. Joe has great advice about getting to know the person, their experience, their knowledge of the local market and much more. Then it’s Bad Guy Bulletin time with Mark Furber from the Bucks County PA DA’s office. Marc talks about a colleague’s mother’s brush with one of the scammers who seize control of your computer to get your personal info and your money. In our Feature, Matt Troiani, Senior Counsel and Director of Legal Affairs for the National Association of Realtors, breaks down a relatively new scam that targets owners of raw land.  If you own raw land, a scammer can access your title, sell your land and get away with the money. After a certain point, a landowner is powerless to do anything about it.