Renters, An Online Search and the Ripoff Report
I am often amazed at the list of offenses some potential renters have collected, and they are impressed that I will know about them before we are finished with our phone call.
If You're on the Ripoff Report,
Your Odds of Renting a Place Aren't Great
A quick online search can sometimes provide valuable information about potential clients or in this case, a potential renter.
The person inquired through a consumer real estate website on a property I had listed for lease. The name provided could not possibly be real. I was curious, so I did I a quick online search of the phone number provided. The top results were found on the Ripoff Report. The complaints were for rental scams.
This isn't the first time a potential renter turned up on the Ripoff Report. I had one lady who, with her husband applied to lease a property I'd listed. The wife didn't want to have her credit run. She insisted that she's a stay at home mom who has no desire for credit because her husband has credit.
I insisted on getting a credit report on her. She said through her agent that the report would contain no information. I said I still needed it. The agent provided a letter from the prospective tenants declaring their love for the property and included a family photo.
I said the letter and photo were lovely, but I needed the wife's credit report. The agent was getting really irritated with me. The wife wrote me a stern email explaining that a credit report was not necessary.
I put the wife's name into a search engine. The stay at home mom had a laundry list of complaints against her. For what? Ripping people off for fraudulent credit repair services, of course.
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