You are a tenant
Fake landlords may ask you to send money by money order to reserve or pay for a rental. You should not give money without signing a rental contract. Prefer to pay by cheque or bank transfer, ask for a receipt if the landlord asks for cash. In any case, never send money by cash money order !
You are the owner
Given the increase in the number of false documents, we recommend that you be very careful when choosing your candidate tenant. In most cases, it is work-related documents that are falsified (pay slip, employment contract, etc…). If you have any doubts about a document, our legal expert will provide you with a free model employer’s certificate to be completed by the employee’s company and authorising you to carry out all the necessary checks.
Once you have received this certificate, you are free to contact the issuing company and verify the presence of your candidate.
You are selling a property
Owner of a dwelling, parking, garage, or warehouse, you put online classified ads to sell this property.
- You receive many calls leaving you a message with a number to call back.
- Don’t call back, it’s a premium rate number !
- Report this spam on the site where the ad is located.
- You are contacted by a buyer located abroad ?
- Don’t waste your time, this buyer will quickly pretext problems and will want to retrieve your administrative documents.
- This buyer will even be ready to pay you a deposit, just to get your bank details back !
You are a buyer of a property
If you are looking for good investments, be careful !
- A very tempting announcement…
- Beware of vendors located abroad…
- Never send a down payment by cash money order !
- In short, you don’t have to pay anything without having visited the property.
- Discover a common scam that cost one of our readers $ 60,000.
- Unscrupulous real estate agencies
- Never buy a list of properties for sale from an agency, the properties are not up to date.
- A serious agency that wants to sell, will give you all the ads for free !
You have a problem with someone ? Our mediation service can help you : contact us !