I live with my boyfriend and my older sister. We’re set to move out of our apartment tomorrow, and my sister had finally picked a house she was happy to move into last Friday.
She found the listing on Zillow and it was a fair price for its amenities. She did a walk through of it with the realtor and submitted paper applications to him in that same day. All things seemed normal—she’d met the guy in person and physically did a walk through of the home, on Zillow it says that his identity has been “verified” (his identity was confirmed by Experian), he asked for pictures of our dogs, etc.
However, whenever she spoke to the realtor, he said that the first months rent, deposit, and pet deposit all had to be paid in half cash, half cashiers check. Absolutely no exceptions.
This man has all of our social security numbers. He apparently has my sister’s banking info (I don’t know how or why that happened).
So, Reddit, did we/are we getting scammed?
Submitted July 27, 2019 at 11:46PM by throwaway91012 https://ift.tt/2KdTDWS
