out of the blue......The restoration companies is the biggest SCAM and there's really nothing anybody does about it.....So even though, we're doing everything right.... you DON'T want to be caught UNPREPARED when the bill comes.....

At least I know the deposit will help cover some of it and at the end of the day, I've stopped them from doing any additional damage by enticing them to move, not to mention I'll be making 4K+ more a year once I find a new tenant.Funny thing is, she tried to scam me and claim she was going to get a room mate from work since she is a single income household so she could afford the rent when I had offered it to her for half way in between what she was paying now and what market rent is.

They know it's a scam, that's why they are putting the pressure on you to move in.

I talked to the roommate and she got scammed by the original renter.

So, I have an applicant for an apartment that I'm renting that will pay for one years' rent up front.It's not an internet scam, I actually met this person.

It's actually better if you don't meet the tenants because you'll be assessing their ability to qualify based on your criteria objectively, rather than on their likability factor (tenant scam artists can be quite charming, you know).

A lot of the professional cleaners are scams. 

I think this service may be a scam.

That's quite the scam strangers can run on people. 

It may well be a scam, but I suspect the laws are different in Canada.