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Tampa Realtor's name used in code enforcement complaints he didn't make
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Tampa Realtor Jason Papi knows a good house where he sees it. He’s a real estate investor. He showed us around one of the houses he renovated.
“The growth of this area is what amped us up about getting property here,” Jason Papi said. He’s getting a name for knowing the real estate market.
“We like finding out what properties will be available for us to come in and kind of put our spin on it,” Papi said.
But recently, he says he’s been getting a bad name.
“We actually started getting calls from pretty upset contractors, investors, homeowners, because I'm in that line of work myself,” Papi said.
All because he says somebody has been using his name to fill out code enforcement complaints at least 87 times.
“I called the city and brought it to their attention,” Papi said. “I spoke with a representative from intake on these complaints, and she informed me that she had seen them coming in, in my name, at a rate of six to eight per week now for a few months.
"So, I pleaded with her to, you know, get her to stop them from coming in."
They never stopped. And the phone calls from angry homeowners thinking he was complaining about their property didn’t either. People saying sales of homes didn’t go through because of a code violation they thought he submitted.
“Day to day, you know, I go outside to walk my dog. And I'm almost paranoid. Now, looking over my shoulder, maybe someone's upset with me, maybe someone lost a lot of money,” Papi said.
MORE: https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/investigations/10-investigates/tampa-realtor-identity-theft-code-complaints/67-1a0b4526-5e4f-44b4-8ea8-105e0a7a6af2
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