If It Is Too Good To Be True…. It is!!

Aloha!! We have officially made it to the island! A bit of a rocky road getting here but we made it safe and sound.  Clayton and I experienced our first life lesson in searching for a house.  I am hoping if someone reads this it can help them in the future!!

                We found THE PERFECT HOUSE.  Was only $1,200 a month, all utilities included, 4 bedroom 3 bath, stand-alone home, in a safe neighborhood, and even had a fire place in it.  Too good to be true? OH YEA.  Clayton and I checked out the place and it was a good looking place, and we could save so much! I cannot believe this has not been snagged before!  The owner said she moved to London and could mail us the key only after we saw the place and filled out a renter’s application.

                We decided to look at other places while we were in the area. This owner said he moved to Africa for his job. (seemed strange that this was the second person renting their house but didn't live there!) When we pulled up to the cheap rent place there were still renters in it.  Clayton started talking to them and they told us about this scam going on people told them about for their house where the land lord said he was in Africa but they knew the land lord and he lived locally! The person would get their Social Security number and all info and money if they could get it and identity theft!   Then we started putting the dots together about the similarity about the “dream house”. The London lady would never answer direct questions about the house, kept wanting us to fill out paper work, and phone number was incorrect.  We called the real estate agent, which had the sign in the front lawn and said it was a big scam and we were lucky we never gave them any information.

                Clayton and I were very lucky all was hurt was our idea of our “dream house”. We are much more cautious about looking at houses and how we view the world to an extent.  Neither one of us thought this would ever happen nor there people out there like this that we would run into.  Lesson Learned.

                Great news is there is many houses out there and we know that we will find the right one for us!