10.3.19 How to avoid fraud; New hires not showing up to work; Short-term rentals becoming more popular

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

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🗓️ 3 October 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

NEVER NEVER NOT EVER publish your birthdate and place of birth online or on social media. Why? That's 98% of what a crook needs to steal your identity. Also, when you get the 'magic formula' investing pitch - know to RUN. No-one legit can promise great results using their strategy - red light / green light investing systems - NO. Don't ever believe it. DO NOT answer your phone if you don't know who is calling. If caller ID says your bank or a government agency is calling, don't answer. Nothing good comes from it. New hires are being no-shows on day one and don't think it's important to let the employer know. Clark's eldest daughter did new employee orientation at a bank. Every week, new hires would be no-shows without notification. Some of these jobs were executive level. There are multiple reports of this happening in the retail and restaurant industries. Job markets are not always strong. It doesn't serve you to blow off a job offer. Have the decency to send a thank you note, to communicate, to be respectful, to notify. Roughly 1 in 3 folks are renters as the market is shifting throughout the country. Apartment overbuilding has resulted in more deals for tenants. Marketwatch reports that - desperate to sell condos or rent apartments, landlords are marketing properties that can be turned into Airbnb rentals. This is different than resort-type condotels - owned hotel rooms that are rented out most of the year. A condo buyer could find themselves surrounded by short-term renters via the developer. This is the opposite of the HOA vs Airbnb conflicts. There's a lot of shakeout with short term rentals - an area of constant change around the country. Condo buyers and apartment renters be aware of the policies. Know in writing condo/apartment policies or you could find yourself surrounded by transients. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.5	Great to have you here on the Clark Howard Show where it's all about you and that
0:40.0	wall of the yours. I want you to learn ideas for me so you can keep more of what you make.
0:46.4	Coming up in just a few minutes in today's Clark Rage's moment, you're not going to believe what
0:52.0	people are doing or not doing in the job market. It is just freaky, weird. And coming up later,
1:02.6	with the overbuilding that's happened around the country with apartments and condos,
1:08.0	there's something you need to know before you rent a place or if you're thinking of buying a condo
1:14.3	especially before you buy that condo, I'm going to fill you in. So we get endless questions about
1:24.0	identity theft with endless things I share with you about things that have happened with
1:30.8	identities being hacked, you know, databases being hacked, people's identities being breached and
1:36.3	all the rest. Well, there was a movie that was very popular years ago called Catch Me If You Can.
1:45.9	And it was about a guy named Frank Abignail who was a real guy who faked people out so many
1:56.1	different ways and committed so many crimes pretending to be different things like they he
2:02.0	pretended to be an airline pilot at one time and a doctor another time. And he was able
2:09.1	to pull this off and con people over and over again that he was things he was not.
2:15.0	Well, he ended up getting caught and turned out to be a very valuable resource once he changed his
2:23.7	ways and got an ethical compass. And now he does the opposite. He tells people how not to get kind.
2:35.1	And so he has some things you need to know that he wants to make sure that is, you know, so he
2:44.9	said the catch me is you catch me if you can was the story about him. So now he's got a book called
2:51.1	scam me if you can with tips for you. And a lot of these things are things if you're a regular listener
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