As anyone who knows us (and has seen our apartment could probably guess,) Rob and I are looking for a new place to live. Two people + a whole lot of stuff + one baby and her stuff = a whole lot of chaos and confusion. So, in the mornings I've been scouring the local ads looking for a place that we like and can afford. (In San Diego, this is roughly equivalent to looking for the golden sheep.)
Anyway, this morning I came across an add which was almost, but not quite, too good to be true. 3BR house in a area where rents are usually stratospheric...renting for about half of what it should be. The ad provided an address, so I ran it through and found that the house normally rented for, well, stratospheric levels. So I emailed the person who placed the ad.
Two red flags: 1) The "owner" was out of the country. (Yeah, why would we rent a house from someone out of the country?) 2) The ad referred to an "apartment" when the ad was for a house. People just don't do that when they're trying to rent a place.
And oh, by the way, the writer sounded like one of those Nigerian scams...so yeah, it's a scam, probably someone trying to rent a house they don't actually own and looking to make a quick $700 or so from someone desperate to find a house (and with all the foreclosures around us, that's probably a lot of people.)
The worst part?
This is the second time I've seen an ad like this. What is it with people, anyway?
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- Krista
- Wife, mom of a preemie, follower of the old ways, lover of anything Irish or Celtic, history buff, trivia nut, Star Trek and Ren Faire geek and costuming fiend. Offer me coffee or chocolate and world peace is assured. Or at least I'll try really hard. :) I also believe in deleting spam. So, to the person or persons who keep leaving me comments in Chinese (along with links to what I can clearly tell are Chinese porn sites) stop it. It's bad karma, to say nothing of being really, really rude.
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