Celebration Condos Rental Scam
We had some friends over at the weekend and they told us about how a friend of theirs, who owns several Celebration condos, had been caught out by a rental scam recently.
Having paid the first month’s rent and security deposit to get in the condo, one of their renters then made up a string of habitability complaints, and more, as justification for not paying any more rent. By using their knowledge of the law and how the legal system works, the renter managed to stay in the condo for 7 whole months absolutely rent free before they were eventually evicted!
It turns out that this wasn’t the first time this particular individual had done this. He is what is commonly known as a serial evictee”.
It also turns out that this particular scam isn’t confined to Celebration either as I discovered yesterday when I came across a blog post on Sellsius Real Estate that talks about this very issue and how one landlord has decided to fight back by “creating a database of problem tenants so as to warn other landlords of undesirables”.
You can find this database as RottenTenant.com. It only has a few names at the moment, but I suspect that this will change as more and more landlords become aware of this site.
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