WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP?

· Contact the AFTF with complaints related to flipping of specific properties.

· Contact the AFTF with any ideas and initiatives that can combat fraudulent and unethical property flipping.

· Contact the AFTF to meet with any interested community groups

· Contact the Inspections Department with specific housing code
violations (i.e. broken windows, hole in roof) on flipped properties.

· Strengthen your neighborhood by joining or forming a block club or neighborhood association.

WHAT ARE THE SIGNS OF A FLIPPED PROPERTY?

· Property has been sold one or more times within one year, and

· Property owner may be out-or-town, state or country, and

· There is a property manager, not a landlord, overseeing the repairs
and collecting rent, and

· Property maintenance is not being performed, and

· Property is vacant, and

· Property is abandoned, and

· Property has housing code violations.