Help! I’ve been broken into!!!

[Vera Rosen]

So here’s the situation: My husband and I bought a SFR under an LLC in a transitional (early stage) neighborhood. We spent the past couple of months fixing it up and just put it online for rent. Within a couple of days we noticed a scam posting of our rental with our pictures and description and address but listed for $800 instead of the $1000 we are asking. The craigslist listing had a phone number which we called - it is a google voice number. We texted back and forth to schedule a showing but got nowhere. Then we headed out of state for a week for spring break with out kids... Next thing we know a friend who was putting the finishing touches on the basement tells us that he can’t access the property and the door is “stuck”. We ask him to confirm and send photos. He goes back and says it looks like the basement window has been kicked in but he could not tell for sure (it has a set of security bars in front of it). At this point we are really worried, but we were out of state and coming back a day later so nothing more we felt we could do. When my husband gets back he headed straight over to the house and could not get in. He looked at the basement window, saw it was just propped in place and entered the house. He went upstairs and opened the doors and promptly put new locks on. My question is: if someone broke in, changed the locks and scammed someone else by renting the property to them, what should we do? Are we okay with just changing the locks back and moving forward renting the property? Has anyone experienced this, and if so, how did you handle it? Is there a good way to catch this person? The police were called and they think it is a scam, and someone may have gotten suckered into a false rental. But they had not heard of anyone doing this before in this neighborhood. Any advise appreciated. Thanks!