When I was looking for a new rental we ran into the crap all the time. There were so many ways the scams ran. One was advertising a house in MM, but then when contacted for an address, told us it wasnt actually in MM, but close by. We still asked for the address, and it came back some BS address, with a CHULA VISTA zipcode. It had really nice pics though, and a really lame thing saying he lived in that house for years and was now on a christian mission to South America and Blah blah blah.

Or the one who wanted to rent his house out below market to some really good, hardworking honest people ….. but we had to MAIL in a $50 per person backround check before he would send us a contract; cause of course he wasnt in state at the moment. (still in the country though, Ohio I think the story went) Oh, and ofcourse we had to mail Cash.

Eventually we just stopped looking at the places that advertised rents significantly below market and assumed they were all scams. There are good deals out there right now, just realize that there arnt ‘once in a life time, awsome, only for you cause you are just that good of a person, kinda deals.