Dennis Norman
Previously I have written giving advice on how to avoid the many rental scams that exist today. I received a comment from Dave Dugdale on one of these posts in which he mentioned a “rental scam detection quiz” he created.
I checked out the rental scam detection quiz and was impressed. It takes just a few minutes to answer the 9 questions the quiz presents and it then gives you what it has calculated of the chances of the rental you are looking at as being a scam. Based on the knowledge I have obtained from researching rental scams for blogs, I found the questions in this quiz to make a lot of sense and be very relevant. In addition, I found the explanations the quiz gives for each question to be very informative. I would highly recommend that you use this tool before handing your deposit money to a landlord or property manager.
Now Dave didn’t go through the effort of designing and programming this tool for nothing of course. He has a website, www.RentVine.Com that has rental listings from all over the country and the quiz is to provide assistance to people looking to rent a home, condo or apartment. If you are a tenant looking for a home, condo or apartment I would suggest you check out www.RentVine.com.
there are so many scams running on the internete so watch out-*~
This is a great information for everyone since I have read that the scammer, usually from Nigeria, the UK or outside of the US, copies a residential rental ad from a rental site and reposts it to a free large classifieds site. They make the rental price very low in order to attract as many potential renters as possible.
[...] 10, 2009 at 5:41 pm | In Tips to Avoid Scams | Leave a Comment Tags: rental scam tips According to RealEstateConsumerNews, there is a new online tool that helps tenants avoid rental scams. I checked out the rental scam [...]
Nice work Dave. Great tool for those who want to check to see if their email communications are with potential scammers. You can also check out: http://rentalscams.org/ for more information on scammers.