• invalidusernamelol [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          20 days ago

          You can literally pull up every bit of information you need on someone directly in a map on a county portal if they own a home.

          Including all publicly filed documents like divorce, alimony, marriage, etc.

          It’s nice that there’s some amount of public information, but it sucks that it’s basically just normal people because the rich don’t have to put PII on their filings and can use fake companies.

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            20 days ago

            Public records are good, being able to buy any individual’s cell phone number and email and incessantly marketing to them just from knowing their name is bad.

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        21 days ago

        Some stuff might be publicly available because FOIA and “Sunshine Laws” (is that a term used outside of Florida?) are mostly about ruining all privacy.

        You can google my name (Somewhat unique, at least in America) and see exactly where I used to live and my party affiliation because some boomer takes all the voter registration records and makes them public and google indexed.

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          I never understood why it’s so public. Why does everyone in the world need to be able to lookup my address just cuz I own it?

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          Once you complete the purchase you will start getting fake letters about you already being delinquent on your mortgage lol.

          Good luck all the same though!

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              No problem! While I’m at it, I should also warn you that your mortgage will probably be sold off to another lender almost immediately. So, one of those letters wont be fake, it will be a notification of the mortgage changing hands.

              It’s such a sham of a process, but good luck, it’s worth it to own your own 4 walls.