I've long thought that pure desire/drive is much more important than intelligence in just about everything, including things that stereotypically require intelligence like programming, math etc.
Assuming the identity of a dead person was (is still?) a common form of fraud. People (usually relatives) could collect pension and social security payments sometimes for years before being discovered (if they ever were).
A real estate website tells me the average in that city is $400K. But it does seem pretty dumb to spend that amount of money on improvements when you know damn well your ownership is fraudulent and may come back to bite you.
$214k is more than I have spent on the home I "own" (have a mortgage on) even adding in my downpayment over the last 7 years. He could have bought a home for what he claims to have spent.
Your original comment to which I was replying when you edited your comment:
> You have to count the total amount you will pay on the mortgage.
Yes. That's what I was counting, I have spent less than $214k on my house, repairs and mortgage.
Your comment after that was edited:
> A house price is a house price, you can't say it's only 20%.
What are you talking about? The question is could he have afforded a house for $214k, and the answer is yes. Houses in that area don't cost a minimum of $1 million, even the house he attempted to steal wasn't worth that much.
cowlevel is saying that they know what a down payment is but also thinks that you can’t buy a house that costs more than the amount of money you have in the bank
Cop stole house from dead man. Then cop sued company that rightfully bought house from dead man's heirs?
It’s always surprising how craftiness and intelligence, which one would expect to be joined at the hip, can exist almost independently to each other.
I've long thought that pure desire/drive is much more important than intelligence in just about everything, including things that stereotypically require intelligence like programming, math etc.
I cannot help but wonder, "What did the cop do with the body?"
The story has a video showing paramedics or someone taking the body away on a stretcher.
I take it you stopped reading before the fifth paragraph.
In this case, more like sometime someone can buy their lies so much even they start to believe them?
Assuming the identity of a dead person was (is still?) a common form of fraud. People (usually relatives) could collect pension and social security payments sometimes for years before being discovered (if they ever were).
> Sguros [the cop] claimed he spent at least $214,000 of his own money on the home.
If he spent so much, why not just buy his own house? The house in the article is nothing special to look at.
A real estate website tells me the average in that city is $400K. But it does seem pretty dumb to spend that amount of money on improvements when you know damn well your ownership is fraudulent and may come back to bite you.
does a house cost below $214,000 now? I haven't heard the news that the market crashed.
$214k is more than I have spent on the home I "own" (have a mortgage on) even adding in my downpayment over the last 7 years. He could have bought a home for what he claims to have spent.
A house price is a house price, you can't say it's only 20%.
Your original comment to which I was replying when you edited your comment:
> You have to count the total amount you will pay on the mortgage.
Yes. That's what I was counting, I have spent less than $214k on my house, repairs and mortgage.
Your comment after that was edited:
> A house price is a house price, you can't say it's only 20%.
What are you talking about? The question is could he have afforded a house for $214k, and the answer is yes. Houses in that area don't cost a minimum of $1 million, even the house he attempted to steal wasn't worth that much.
A house price of $214k is not the same as a down payment of $214k
cowlevel is saying that they know what a down payment is but also thinks that you can’t buy a house that costs more than the amount of money you have in the bank
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That he is being prosecuted for this is a sad example of why officers need stronger qualified immunity for snap decisions made in the line of duty
I can't tell if this is satire or not, but I'm suspecting that it is
You forgot the /s
The most surprising part of this story is that a police officer got arrested and charged with a felony.
Happens like every week. Maybe you just don't read news outside HN.