It is very rare for this to occur for a purchaser. it is better not to complete such a form since you could potentially expose yourself to claims fraudulent or negligent missrepresentation. 

A year later, news breaks that the city is suing firm's partner for fraudulent work.

The difficulty will be catching it every time it pops up again - I don't know that Craigslist is particularly proactive about that kind of thing (I don't know that they'll ban accounts or anything like that - and even if they did, it's super easy to make another one).The sad fact of the matter is that fraudsters like this are common, and to the best of my knowledge the only way to fight this particular activity is to keep an eye on Craigslist and flag listings when they appear.You may also consider writing up a BEWARE OF FRAUDULENT ACTIVITY post to post in the VR section of CL, and explain what happened and that people should use extreme caution when booking direct via Craigslist - they should only go through booking platforms like AirBNB/VRBO to protect themselves.  

Unfortunately when you have a separate address, which the City requires, to submeter the utilities PG&E requires separate meters.You can always have "Utilities included" with couple hundred dollars extra to combat the use

Instead you have found a fraudulent or bait and switch lender who are just taking upfront fees as deposits and have no intention of funding anything at the quoted terms.The fraudulent lenders tend to play more in the 500k to 1.5 million space.

I think it’s better to let our attorney explain as he has the entire list of things along with photos and videos of fraudulent work being billed and not actually completed and additional damage they caused to our homes.

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Is there anything you’ve discovered over the years to help combat this or somehow control this a little?

Once that bad behavior is identified then does management swiftly act to combat it. 

@Joe Maron Not 100% sure if this would go through perfectly but I would say If you can prove it and it makes sense, not sure they could combat it.