Craigslist Rental Scam Leaves Family Homeless

Phillip and his family are planning a move from Las Vegas to Denver and need a new place to live quickly. He finds the perfect rental house on Craigslist but he doesn’t want to take any chances and flies to Denver to tour the home with the real estate agent. A few days after he moves in, a woman knocks on the door claiming she has also rented the house. They realize this is more than just a crazy mix-up when a second person arrives expecting to move in.
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[@butterflyW44]

Thank you for all the valuable information.

[@sonyzawhiteside7789]

I have a friend and her family of 8, with 2 disabled persons and 2 children, at the time, to actually become homeless after living in the house for 15 days or so. It was winter, just days before Christmas and they had just moved back home to South Carolina from Colorado. They had paid the down payment abd first months rent, everything they had, signed the lease, had keys from a lock box to the rental house. Days later, a real estate agent knocked at the door asking how they were in the house. The agent gave them until New Years to move so that they could look for a new place and celebrate Christmas.

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[@Pr1ya-Night]

This is going to a be a harrowing video, I can already tell