Gave an advance payment? And we changed our minds to sell housing!

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For the first time in my life, I took up a pen. I want to tell a story that literally shocked all our relatives and friends. The story in which we met people who build their well-being on deception. Someone will probably say: “Just think, now there’s a fraud, as they say, at every step.” Maybe nothing special if he, this deception, is not so hypocritical, if fraudsters do not speculate on the health of children, just to get money.
I will try to describe only the most important points of the transaction in which our family was injured. It is briefly difficult to convey the five-month saga - from the beginning, when people deftly pretended to be honest and sincere, and up to the moment when they changed dramatically.
Our family really needed a housing exchange. In one of the issues of a local newspaper, I read an ad in the heading "For Sale": "Urgent 1-sq. By installments." I called and found out: a one-room apartment is in a house on the outskirts of the city, the owners estimate it at 9 thousand dollars. This price was announced immediately - without discussion and doubt. The installment plan was explained by the fact that N.'s family urgently needed money for his daughter’s operation, three thousand dollars at once, and they were ready to wait the rest of the amount for at least a year. The catch was that the apartment was considered official. Therefore, it was necessary to wait a month or two until it was withdrawn from the category of departmental.
It was hard to believe in sincerity: for the sake of the daughter’s health, parents are ready for anything.
After learning the background of the sale, I suggested the following: we exchange our room for this apartment and give the family N. the necessary money as an extra charge. They agreed, recognizing this option even better than selling: they receive money and there will be housing.
The owner rented this apartment, and lived with his wife in a three-room apartment on the other side of the city.
N. tried to be convincing, even offered us the keys to the apartment, promising to free her from the tenants whom they were renting. Out of our kindness or naivety, we refused the keys, pitying people: it’s hard for them, even if they rent an apartment for now. How many promises to hear promises and beautiful words! The most cynical, as we now understand, were: "We want to find decent people so that we are not deceived."
Believing everything, we decided to give money. Our agreement was issued with a receipt. We made it ourselves, arbitrarily, without assuming that in three months they would look for dirty tricks in it. The receipt indicated that the money was given by us specifically for the upcoming exchange (and not on loan) and the amount of the surcharge will not change. After 2.5 months, the apartment was "serviced" (by the way, we also paid all the expenses, by gullibility we didn’t even take a receipt). We agreed further: we are waiting for calls to keep abreast of how things are going with paperwork.
Patiently wait until they call. A week, two - nothing. Call yourself. They tell us: we still have to wait. Again we wait, we call, we wait ... Finally we waited and began to collect documents for exchange. And again, we are waiting for the call. As you may have guessed, it is not there. I’m calling myself. At first they tell me that the documents are not ready, and then all of a sudden: "Our circumstances have changed, we changed our minds about changing and already submitted documents for privatization, because we decided to sell the apartment more expensive." So easy and simple.
You can talk a lot about how we were offered to sue in order to return our money, how more than once we were deceived with the terms of their return, in what tone they talked to us, without even saying an elementary: sorry. The most amazing thing: these people did not understand that they had deceived those who had given them money for a vital operation to the child (and whether there was an operation? - we don’t know) and due to whom they now have the opportunity to sell the apartment more expensive, in other words, simply to cash in.
Recently, thank God, the money was returned to us. With such a favor and a challenge that it is impossible to describe.
Perhaps N. again "sell the apartment by installments" and tell compassionate stories. There are not so few naive like us. So be careful with the independent exchange and purchase of housing - it is easy to run into scammers, and getting rid of the consequences of a scam is so easy.
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[Матушкин Андрей Николаевич]

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