A well-known property blogger has become caught up in a subletting scam.
Sam Collett writes a property blog called What Sam Saw Today and her latest blog entry details how a departing, non-paying tenant posed as the landlord and let the property to an unwitting victim.
In a post entitled “WTF? My tenant pretended to me be (the landlord) and sub-let my house,” Collett details what happened.
In short Collett was in the process of evicting a tenant in rent arrears. The tenant duly left but not before advertising the house for rent and signing up a new tenant on an AST and taking a deposit.
The new tenant apparently then twigged that something was amiss and looked up the rightful owner of the property on the Land Registry and contacted Collett.
Whether the new tenant is somehow in on the scam remains to be seen. The original tenant, meanwhile, is nowhere to be found.
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Comments
This actually happened to me many years ago, in my case it was a 3 bedroom property that was rented out to a couple, I was in the process of evicting them when they decided to move out but rent all the rooms in the house individually. That's 3 bedrooms and 2 living rooms . 5 'ALIEN' tenants I had to deal with.
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