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Scam -- or alternate business model?
Palo Alto Issues, posted by Editor, Palo Alto Online, on Oct 18, 2012 at 4:04 pm

Local residents have been caught in a five-year debate over the activities of one man, a real-estate investor named Jason Buzi.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, October 10, 2012, 1:24 PM

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Posted by No-thanks, a resident of the South of Midtown neighborhood, on Oct 18, 2012 at 4:04 pm

OK Jason, hope you are reading this. Enough. No more fliers, letters, fed ex envelopes with ready to sign contracts. We know how to contact you if we want to sell. So stop with the mass marketing.


Posted by Journalism, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood, on Oct 18, 2012 at 4:45 pm

I'm a bit surprised that the reporter didn't do a little more digging about Mr. Buzi's activities. His outing as a spammer (Web Link ), his Cashtomato stunts (Web Link and (Web Link), his BBB rating of F (Web Link), he's listed at AccessBancMortgage in San Jose, and Pantera Group in Redwood City. He's somehow involved with Loanswift in San Jose.

Seems he's quite an active guy. The story needs fleshing out.


Posted by Jan H. , a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood, on Oct 18, 2012 at 8:11 pm

We got a letter in the mail from this guy in February, claiming he had a buyer, a nice family, who wanted to buy our house and would pay top dollar. It sounded too fishy to be true, so I threw it in the recycling bin.

A couple of days later I had second thoughts and showed it to my husband, who laughed and said that if it were true, another letter would be forthcoming. So, I tossed it in the recycling bin a second time. After all this time, I never received anything else from this guy.

Did everyone in town get one of these letters, or what?


Posted by Marliver, a resident of Mountain View, on Oct 23, 2012 at 11:42 pm

He's still around. And this week, he advises against his prospective sellers seeking an attorney to review his 'offers'.


Posted by ducatigirl, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood, on Oct 25, 2012 at 12:40 pm
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Sounds like he was caught with his hand in the cookie jar.


Posted by David Blockhus, a resident of Los Altos, on Nov 15, 2012 at 11:20 am

Here is a link to a post I did on a selling home to anyone who shows up on your doorstep - Web Link


Posted by David Blockhus, a resident of Los Altos, on Nov 15, 2012 at 11:24 am

Here is a video showing Jason talking about "wholesaling" which is why he is leaving flyers all over the bay area. According to Jason, it "only risk free way of buying real estate" note: its about 17 minutes long.

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