PHOTO: South Florida family
MIAMI (WSVN) – A South Florida family that moved into a new home for the holidays could soon find themselves homeless after they discovered that their investment was part of an elaborate real estate scam.
Fredy Asevedo said he used money he had been saving to move his family into a new home in Miami just in time for Christmas. Now they are stuck with a holiday headache.
When asked whether this was his Christmas gift to his loved ones, Asevedo replied, “Yeah.”
But instead of gifts and holiday cheer, Asevedo and his family are surrounded with anxiety and uncertainty.
“Para Christmas, nothing, nada,” he said.
“It seemed real, but it wasn’t,” Asevedo added in Spanish.
Asevedo thought he found a new home for his family.
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