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.
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.
[...] 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 [...]
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.