She provided documentation to show it was against someone else with the same name but not her (it didn't show up on the tenant screening report; she scammed me but that's another story), and paid an extra month's rent in advance.

Why would anyone fill out anything until they look at the property and the reason I say that is there are a lot of scams out, there were people looking forward to getting personal info?

It's also indicated that such deals can be the sell, finance, foreclose, rinse and repeat scam which is a real good definition for predatory lending.

I don't want anything from them at all and just want to see people enjoy the process and not get taken by the incredible number of traps and scams out there.

That will fool only a few people, looks like a scam, and maybe was a scam.

I told him that there will be no money changing hands until closing and that this seems to be a scam.

Is this stuff a scam?

However, there is no equity with the numbers you stated so you would be putting up thousands of dollars to take over payments on an underwater property which you could never resell..2) Most Gov agencies warn sellers that anyone asking them to sign over title is a scam.

At this point most of my time is devoted to studying.

Is it some kind of scam?