KIRO 7 has been investigating the company for more than year, which eventually led to lawsuits filed by attorneys general in six states for fraudulent and deceptive business practices.
The company pays consumers as low as $300 for the exclusive right to sell their homes for 40 years. The catch: if you didn’t use them to sell your house, you would be hit with a big penalty -- 3% of the value of your home.cutting the length of these kinds of deals to five years. The question is, what does this mean for the hundreds of people in Washington who have MV Realty contracts?
First, Chapter 11 is reorganization, so the company isn’t going away -- they just want to present a plan to a judge on how they will pay their debts. That means things won’t really change immediately.You can hear more about what this means for existing MV Realty customers today on KIRO 7 at 5:30 p.m.