Someone want to buy us a house

MoJoeGo

Just wondering when the indecent proposal will get slipped in...

lisyloo

MoJoeGo said:

Just wondering when the indecent proposal will get slipped in...

You jest, but it is possible this is to have a hold over someone to get them involved in something illegal e.g. growing drugs in the house or holding trafficked people no questions asked (you have me going down a dark path now).

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justwhat said:

Why can't there be people out there like this? The more money you have the less important it is, in some ways. Some peoples idea of petty cash is another persons lifetime income.

When it is not blood, it is dodgy.    To good to be true is another...

I work for rather positive, anything is possible people, but I've come to realise the downside to such is there is a like to spending money they don't really have.....

There's a lot more to it but once had a Employer who allowed us to go on Christmas leave early, turns out we were best out of the way, whilst they cracked on with the Furlough claiming, there was no intention made to say anything. as I sat with the company laptop doing work over the period, I actually ended up doubting myself believing I had somehow downloaded a link about furlough myself but the worst had happened and it would be a couple more months before that one come to roost but it did - people who get caught up in frauds truly suffer.

Another one who liked to spend but at the expense of life
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Webster_(murderer)

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To everything this guy has offered, I would say 'thanks very much but no thanks'. Call me cynical but I have just finished reading a book called 'Psychopath' by Mary Turner Thomson - a Scottish woman who unwittingly got tangled up with and married a brilliantly clever American conman by the name of William Allen Jordan. She was conned out of thousands of pounds. He's also conned many other people out of thousands of pounds by simply being a smooth talker. He's been in jail for being a bigamist but is now out of jail and up to his old tricks - that is tricking folk. Google him, he's on t'internet.

Nearly thought we'd read same book, here is another read
https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/sleeping-with-a-psychopath-carolyn-woods?variant=32750324514894

Slinky

Believe it or not, it can happen. My aunt and uncle were childless. When they passed away not long after each other, uncle left the house to their long term lodger. Lodger couldn't bear to live in the house on his own as it was full of memories, so he gave it away to a family he met on the allotments and moved into an old seaman's mission almshouse. My aunt would have been livid.

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LilacButterfly95 said:

My partner has a friend he hasn’t known for very long however they get along very well had a few nights out together just a typical bromance anyway, one night they got to talking about work ect, the guy asked my partner his dream jobs ect as he worked in the army and missed the opportunity to get a trade and is now stuck in an office job, renting an over priced mould ridden 1bedroomed flat. Now based on that concersation my partners friend asked to meet him one afternoon and not only offered him £20,000 to learn a trade and start a business he has also offered to purchase him a £145,000 2 bedroomed house and put it in my partners name! We obviously rejected this and said there’s no way we could accept this generous offer.. turns out after a few google searches the guy is a multi millionaire in America who owns a million dollar business.. the guy has continued to offer to help us out and when we’ve asked why he’s doing it he simply said my life has revolved around my work so much I haven’t had a chance to have my own family life I have no one to spend the money on so if I can help a struggling family make ends meet and have the life they deserve then why shouldn’t I? 

Are we stupid to reject it? Their friendship has nothing to do with the money! But at the same time are we horrible people if we accept? I don’t know if my conscience would ever get over the fact this guy restarted and built our lives I don’t know if that’s something I can carry with me for the rest of my life!!

Wow... that was a good one.

I came here on some advise. First thing that caught my attention was this post. To be honest, I always wished something of this sort happened to me. I mean, money in gifts to me to get onto the housing ladder. But anyways...

Miracle sometimes do happen.
Bad things do happen.

If you are proceeding, then move legally. Hire a solicitor and ensure everything is legal. Transaction will ofc be scrutinised for  money laudering / illegal gifts from strangers.

You may expect a "indencent proposal" which can be anything. At that point, you just break the relationship with the stranger and move on.
If it happens to be a trouble, you call police enforement.

Remember, it is very easy to create a linkedinprofile, create a website of your own, travel blog, etc with few 100 £'s. You can create a fake webhistory. But again, you can't tell if this new friendship is real.

Hopefully your not passing the time here with your own story of how people would respond.

Please do keep everyone posted on how things go. Take care

Lara94

I apologise if anybody has already mentioned this. Of course, there are generous people in the world. There are also people with incredibly inventive and elaborate scams. But if you find this offer too irresistible to resist, make sure to have everything done through the proper legal channels - i.e., instruct your own solicitor to advise you. And then follow their advice.

IslandLife

The only thing I can say is do what feels genuinely right to you and your partner. 

If you feel you would be taking him for a mug by accepting the house then don’t. 

Perhaps figure out what you are happy to accept and go from there, for example the training sounds great, I wouldn’t say no straight out, and suspect he is some sort of criminal.
 

Why the hell would he be interested in you two? Aren’t there easier people to exploit out there, not ex-army and people with no children (I don’t mean that in a rude way)… And why would he as the person with all the money be doing jobsworth roles like some people have suggested, it’s just too far fetched for me. Rich people exist.

ps. You could suggest he sees a therapist, sounds like he is going through a tough time personally. 

Good luck either way 

f5morg

Would love an update on this. I agree with the waiting for the friendship to develop plus solicitor model. Also do you as OP like this man, if you were to accept wouldn't you like to get on with this man too. As others have said, once it is a gift potentially, are you happy to offer thanks, take him for dinner/housewarming etc and then draw a line under that i.e. keep to your boundaries, don't say yes to things that you wouldn't say yes to if they hadn't bought you the house. If the friendship goes south are you happy to live there and not feel guilty? Do you feel the need to get a house off your own back? It will create awkward moments if you don't establish boundaries and involving lawyers may sour an early friendship

Planeteer

This is worse than a Netflix cliffhanger. What happened next? What did you decide?