Scammer! My husband and I contacted a realtor about a townhouse from an available properties list she emailed us. She said she would contact the property owner.  Later that night we received an email from someone we thought was the property owner of the house we contacted her about. The guy asked what house we were interested in and showed us a house we didn't ask about. He was asking $800 for a house we researched on zillow and other rental websites that was listed for $1500. My husband asked why the price was so much cheaper. He said he didn't have a realtor anymore because they were imposing too much on the price. He kept forcing on us to fill out the applications with no fee he said. (We didn't fill anything out) he said he was in tennessee now and was trying to rent his house out. Said he'd send us the keys in the mail lol. We looked at the return address in tennessee and there were no apartments on google maps lol. Just trees and one building. My husband asked him how he got our number and the guy kept beating around the bush. We asked well did you get it from the realtor and he just kept talking all weird. His number was from a florida area code he called us on and text us from a south dakota area code. The realtor didn't even give out our number to this guy after we talked to her about it because she didn't even have our number. She only had our email so we assume he was inteferring with the emails and got my husbands mobile number somehow. Long story short the guy wasn't doing a good job at trying to scam us.

I just got off the phone with him. these people must be getting desperate! Usually, it's a conversation via e-mail. I was stunned he called me! Said he wanted to rent to a nice person...blah, blah, blah.

we contacted the website that listed a great house.  We went and looked at the outside, but they couldn't let us see the inside, since they were in Tennessee, but there's a lockbox and renter company outside.  He was hung up on me sending the security deposit to his wife today, so they could take the listing down.