Are you sure that that department of human rights really called you ... and it wasn't just that tenant or friend who called, pretending to be that department to scam you out of 1 months rent?

In any case, posting on craigslist will only get you scammed.

I hear there are a lot of private lending scams out there.  

We were very very careful to make sure this wouldn't happen because of all the interest in the property and it's common for people to pull these shenanigans to get a property under contract and accepted for a ridiculous price and then later back out and reduce the offer for the "appraised value" so we wrote a special clause into our counter proposal.On top of all this the roofer that I had hired took my $1k and ran off with the material money and also hired and scammed another roofing company that tore off the existing roof.

So, you get a shady tenant who games the system, cheats landlords as a practice, and a company that helps them with the scam.

Reach out to them to get copies.I think the IRS help companies are scams so do not try to go that route.  

Back in 2012 someone went on ripoff report and said I was a scam artist.

but lets see what others think there are always crooks out there that are happy to scam the system like you want to do@?

or should I chalk this up as a potential scam He has a good concept for a funding program for renovation and flipping the property which is why I was wondering if anyone has done business with him.

I had a cat with kittens locked in a garage once, it was all a scam to get cash for keys since they read online that animals+power on=occupied.