Aspiring gurus, I know there's a ton of money in ripping off starry eyed newbies, but please find something constructive to do with your career instead. https://www2.floridarealtors.org/news-media/news-articles/2019/11/ftc-cracks-down-second-real-estate-seminar-scam

Sometimes CL ads are a scam (you probably knew that already).

There are a lot of scams running around where HMLs will take application fees and then never close on a property.

Many times they fall into the realm of predatory lending scams & things of that nature.

Let me know how if so and what youve done in the past if youve encountered this.

Anyone encountered this? 

It's a scam. 

My advice would be, if you have the time and you are managing it yourself (sounds like you are), is to come up with your plan to list, show, prepare, and rent the property yourself.Besides being incredibly informative to both processes and what you'll encounter, you'll also know the ins-and-outs should you ever turn it over to someone in the future.Some thoughts below on listing; I have many more if you're interested but this is all sourced from my experience and using BP posts/articles to assist:List on Craigslist, and use Zillow (which propagates to Trulia and its partners).Get lots of good pictures of the unit, pick the 10-15 best.Be as professional as possible in how you describe the unit.

i flagged it and e-mailed craigslist to take it out.i will contact evolve to see if we can watermark my photos somehow. these people are really good in scamming people. thank you.

If you are too low people see the ad and assume it's a scam or too good to be true so don't automatically assume you should lower rent.Let us know how it goes.