Are there a lot of real estate scams in Kentucky?

When I search online for a house to buy in Kentucky, I often see very nice bargain-priced houses. But when I look up the address of the house on Google Maps, I often can't find it. I get the impression a lot of the houses advertised in the MLS don't actually exist, or have wrong addresses, or something. Is it possible that a lot of those listings are fake, to try to get more customers for that real estate agency? If a customer wants to see the house, maybe they show them a lot of other houses and say that house is no longer available? I also noticed a house in Indiana with 25 photos posted in the listing, and those photos make it seem like a much more valuable house than it really is. The photos of the front of the house were omitted, because those would reveal the truth. Since I found that particular house with Google maps, I could also see the neighborhood, which made it even clearer how the house was worth far less than the impression of the photos. Is it possible that when a house has a wrong address, it's so people can't find it with Google Maps, so they can't see how bad it really looks until they get the real estate agent to show them houses? Maybe the house with the 25 photos was a mistake, in the sense that they should have given it a wrong address, so the customers couldn't see how big a lie the 25 photos were?

2 months ago - 1 answers