My friend is buying a REO home in Bakerfield California. She went by there to check on status of pool treatment because power failure caused a pool filled with UCK. A car pulled up in front and a lady approached my friend with a rent check for this house. My friend, totally befuddled, said she must have the wrong house. She was adamant this was the place and had seen the interior of it just a few days before.
My buyer friend contact realtor who found out this home was part of a renter scam, where someone gets access to the lock box code and shows the home for rent. Then collects first and last month rent from prospective renter and disappears into the sunset. Renter is left holding the "empty" bag.
Anyone else had something like this happen? And what state(s)?
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