Cleveland left to clean up after a Swedish real estate pitch
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While scrolling through a Facebook group in 2017, a Swedish woman named Lena Jalke-Fehrm learned about a real estate opportunity in Cleveland.
She didn’t know much about the city but recognized it from the sitcom “Hot in Cleveland.” Online, a company called Solid Capital Group said Swedes could buy American houses and generate “passiv inkomst:” passive income, a reliable stream of rent payments from halfway around the world.
Jalke-Fehrm was interested. Later, she met with two women from the company …