{"id":6708,"date":"2018-02-22T05:15:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T05:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realestatewords.com\/?page_id=6708"},"modified":"2021-11-03T20:15:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T20:15:04","slug":"negative-fraud","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.realestatewords.com\/negative-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Negative Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Negative Fraud Definition<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Negative fraud<\/strong> is lying through withholding information.<\/p>\n<h2>Explanation<\/h2>\n<p>Negative fraud occurs when a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realestatewords.com\/real-estate-agent\/\">real estate agent<\/a> decides not to share information with the buyer that would have been required to be disclosed by law. Agents are often financially motivated to withhold information that could jeopardize a transaction. They do it to get their clients to enter a contract, therefore earning themselves a commission.<\/p>\n<p>The damage they cause can be financial damage like the need to repair the hardwood floors or it could even pose personal harm to the buyers like damage to their health caused by having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realestatewords.com\/mildew-mold\/\">mold<\/a> in the basement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode_tabs horiz_tabs\"><div class=\"scT\"><ul class=\"scT-tab clearfix\"><li class='tS' style='width:100%;'><a>Expert Contributor<\/a><\/li><\/ul><div class='scTC scTC208' style='display:block;'><p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10493\" src=\"https:\/\/www.realestatewords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Jules-Borbely-Broker.jpg\" alt=\"Oleg Donets headshot\" width=\"150\" height=\"180\" \/>Jules Borbely<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>REAL ESTATE BROKER<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Expert contributor at RealEstateWords.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realestatewords.com\/contributors\/jules-borbely\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View profile<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10688 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.realestatewords.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Real-Estate-Words-Contributor.png\" alt=\"Real Estate Words Contributor badge\" width=\"200\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"su-note\"  style=\"border-color:#dadada;border-radius:3px;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;\"><div class=\"su-note-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" style=\"background-color:#F4F4F4;border-color:#ffffff;color:#333333;border-radius:3px;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;\">Interested in becoming a contributor? Apply for our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realestatewords.com\/contributor-program\/\">Expert Contributor Program<\/a>.<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Negative Fraud Definition Negative fraud is lying through withholding information. Explanation Negative fraud occurs when a real estate agent decides not to share information with the buyer that would have been required to be disclosed by law. Agents are often financially motivated to withhold information that could jeopardize a transaction. They do it to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestatewords.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestatewords.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestatewords.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestatewords.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestatewords.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestatewords.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11175,"href":"https:\/\/www.realestatewords.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6708\/revisions\/11175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realestatewords.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}