Almost signed with a broker in Irvine, then I checked the parent company and noped out
Almost wired $2,000 to a broker in Irvine last month because their site looked great, but I pulled up their parent company name on the state license lookup first and it matched a firm that already had 4 complaints on here. The one I ended up with in Denver shows the same legal name on the site, the license, and the deposit page, and that lined up, so I went with them. The difference was boring stuff like that, same name everywhere, real address, live phone. What do you all check first when a site looks slick but something feels off?