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Originally Posted by STLRAY
I am planning to rent a house in TV soon and it occurs to me that I am about to send a five figure check to a stranger who posted pictures and a description of a house on a website. The person does not need to actually own a house to post these pictures and collect checks from multiple strangers. Am I being paranoid or is this a real risk? I know lots of people have been ripped off on adds for cars on E-bay and Craigslist. Do the people operating these websites confirm that the person listing the rental actually owns or manages the properties they are advertising?
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Here's one that happened in 2018. We were lucky we got our $900 deposit back.
for some reason the link will not work. Just do a search for Jackie Hamilton O'Neil at the Villages dash news dot com
"Villager who ripped off snowbird renters pays $42,000 in restitution " Do a search for that headline.