Jeff Guo
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1,187 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 11 Sep
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One person buys a home for pretty cheap, they turn around, sell that home to a close friend.
And the trick here is that the friend agrees to buy the home at a super high price, like way higher than the house is actually worth.
Maybe they even get an appraiser to say that the house is worth that inflated price.
And using that fake price, the friend applies for a really, really big mortgage loan.
This scheme would
Where you conspire to convince a lender to loan you a lot of money for a home that is not actually worth a lot of money is a type of fraud.
And with DSCR loans where there's no limit to how many loans you can get, you could, in theory, repeat this fraud over and over and over again.
Jack and Halley say if the two friends repeat this scam hundreds of times, let's say, and if they're able to hide the money that they've pocketed, they could walk away with millions of
a fraudulent home valuation scheme would be especially easy to pull off in Baltimore, where some blocks are in good shape, but others are filled with abandoned vacant homes.
And they all might look the same to the private lenders who don't know Baltimore and who are trying to get these loans done quickly.
Last fall, Jack, Halley, and their colleague Sahana J.
Ramond published a series of stories about what's been going on in Baltimore.
and their suspicions.
Though they say it is possible that these landlords were trying their best and just ended up in way over their heads.
But recently they've learned that the FBI has opened an investigation into Alias or Gold and Benjamin Idlis and others.
Also, private lenders have put those names on a blacklist.
By the way, we did reach out to Eliezer Gold and Benjamin Idless, neither of them would comment.
And okay, one way to look at what happened here is if this was a scam, well then it was just a couple of bad actors defrauding some mortgage lenders, right?
But maybe some of the responsibility lies with these DSCR loans.
Maybe they're a little too easy to get.
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