Room for Rent and other rental scams
by stopthescamming Thu Jun 20, 2013 5:45 am
Moved here - CW

I thought I found a great miracle of a property and price
until I did my homework (probably a bit too late)
Turns out it was too good to be true.
I don't know what is worse the fact that these people are scamming others
(I mean I have a child for goodness sake, $1100 goes a long way when you have a child)
or the fact that they are doing it in the name of The Lord.




Re: Lead for 905 Floradale Drive, Austin, TX 78753
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Jeffrey E Jones <[email protected]>

Jun 19 (1 day ago)

to me
Thank you for your response and interest in our house.

The house is very much available and it is a large, Beautiful and well maintained immaculate house. Which was formally occupied by me and my family before we left for United Kingdom by the United State Christian Organization for (Worldwide Missionary Outreach)the web address:-http://www.wmo.org I will love to have showed you round the house and the inside, but am sorry i am presently out on a missionary trip.I have been posted to the United kingdom. We are now in United kingdom for the Missionary work and so all you can do is drive by the home anytime. i wanted to sell it before and later changed my mind to rent it out for investment purposes since i might still come back some time 5 years or more to come. So we have ordered them to stop all advertisement about the home for sale and that will be effective asap. So i wouldn't want that to bother you at all I could not find an honest agent to hand over the place before leaving so i and my wife decided to post the property online.The single family home is exactly like you see it in the pictures, fully furnished, but I have the option of sending all my furniture into storage if you want to bring your own (no extra costs). Here is our rental application form that you will have to fill if you are still interested in this house.


FULL NAME:
MARITAL STATUS:
OCCUPATION:
HOME PHONE NUMBER:
MOBILE NUMBER:
CURRENT ADDRESS STATE, ZIP
REASON FOR LEAVING/WANTING TO LEAVE YOUR PREVIOUS HOME OF RESIDENCE
PREVIOUS RENT
NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT IS TO LEAVE IN THE HOUSE
DO YOU HAVE A CAR? IF YES HOW MANY
DO YOU HAVE A PET?
WHEN DO YOU PLAN MOVING INTO A NEW HOME

This is the Address of the Single family house: 905 Floradale Drive, Austin, TX 78753

I look forward to hearing from you ASAP as I am in haste to lease out the property. Please note the security deposit is the same as the monthly rent and my property is move in ready
Rent=$550

Best Regards
You can call me anytime at: (+44 7031919572 or +447024098433)
Thanks and God bless you

Jeffrey E Jones

From: HotPads <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 5:44 AM
Subject: Lead for 905 Floradale Drive, Austin, TX 78753

Hello Jeffrey E Jones,

A HotPads user has contacted you regarding "beautiful home"

Is this home for vacational rent? or leasing?


Move-in: 7/19/2013

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Jeffrey E Jones

2:37 PM (14 hours ago)

to me
Alright (X-X-X), I just want you to know I have received your information and I will go through it later in the day with my wife, I will get back to you later tonight or by morning to let you know what we have decided. I want you to know all I am asking is for my home to be taking good care of and as long as you give me your word on that I am sure everything will go fine God's willing, I like to treat people the way I want to be treated so I expect nothing less, as I believe honesty is the greatest virtue of all. So as long as I am sure that you will take good care of my home I will be glad to let you have our beautiful home


Myself and my wife actually took pride in what we lived in and that's basically why it hurts us so much that we had to leave our home the way we did, so we are just trying to make sure we rent it out to the right person, that would live and take care of the house as if it were his/hers.

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Jeffrey E Jones

1:26 AM (3 hours ago)

to me
Thank you for all the information provided. myself and my wife have found the information provided by you to be satisfactory of all the replies we have received, we have found this one more appealing and i have decided to give you a trial by leasing out our property to you . I have decided to let you live in my house. The house is available now, you have to provide the security deposit to hold the house,

I’m ready and willing to accept either monthly or upfront mode of payment, but before you move into the house, an initial payment of the security deposit is to be paid to my aunt in the states, that will enable her open up a bank account where all subsequent monthly rental payment would be paid into instead of having to send money down here to me, the security deposit is the same as rate as the rent.

Just to make sure we are on the same page here, once my aunt confirms the payment of the security deposit, I will immediately send you a parcel containing the key and all other necessary materials you need to live in my house, and I will be sending it through FedEx which will take 48hrs to get to you, once you get the parcel, you can then go ahead to make the payment for the first month rent.

I will need a working address to send the parcel containing the keys and the lease agreement documents to, I would advise your present home address or better still your office address as this would ease the transfer of these items. Me and my wife take pride in what we live-in and that’s the basic reason why it’s hurting us to have to leave our home the way we did, I am absolutely confident that you won’t regret renting my property rather you would be glad you did, my only hope now is that you won’t disappoint me as regards the welfare of the home because that’s the actual reason am renting it out and am only doing this trusting that you are the right person.

Kindly get back at me ASAP, as this will enable me to start making arrangements for the transfer of the relevant materials to you.

The list of things I would be sending to you are.

1) Entrance and the rooms keys

2) Paper/Permanent house forms( containing your reference details)

3) The house documentary file

4) Payment Receipt

5) Telephone directory containing phone number of handymen and company that provide repair services.


I will also need you to confirm your delivery details and also to answer the below questions so as to certify my worries about you taking charge of my house:

Delivery Name:
Delivery Address:
Phone #:


Kindly get back to me now so we can conclude all necessary arrangements.

Regard and God bless you!!!
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