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How One Woman Narrowly Avoided a Bad Deal With a “We Buy Ugly Houses” Franchise

Royanne McNair believed she had canceled her contract with a “We Buy Ugly Houses” franchise, so she pursued another offer on her house — this one for $100,000 more.

Then an anonymous envelope froze the deal.

by @AnjeanetteDamon

https://www.propublica.org/article/behind-the-scenes-of-we-buy-ugly-houses-deal?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

msbellows,
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@ProPublica @AnjeanetteDamon This is an ugly industry, but in this case they seem to be... in the right?

HarkMahlberg,
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@msbellows No, they doubled down on the shady when they tried to sweep it under the rug.

But he also made another request. He told McNair that the Black Rock representative — a parent of five children — who got her to sign the contract could lose his job if ProPublica publishes a story about it. He asked McNair if he could record a statement from her and take her photograph. She said he wanted to publish his own story to “retract” what ProPublica reports.

dbsalk, to bookstodon
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With more than 7 hours on a plane for a business trip this week, I couldn't take any chances with my reading material. I wanted to make sure I had a REALLY GOOD book, so I went with a re-read of one of my recent favorites: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab. It has so much to love: romance, adventure, fantasy, a nasty villain, a feisty heroine with circumstances definitely not in her favor. It's wonderful. @bookstodon

dbsalk, to bookstodon
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What a happy coincidence that pulled Las Vegas Noir from my TBR for me to read. I'm off to Las Vegas in a couple of weeks for work. The city - or at least the part we see the most - is constantly reinventing itself, so the represented in this book is very different from the one that exists now, 15 years after it was published.

It's been a while since I read a short story collection. These are fun. @bookstodon

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