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

If you just use M2M agreements, at least you can just give them 30 days notice without a reason.The best way to avoid scam artists, though (and they can look like really nice retired ladies), is to have written criteria.  

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.

Honolulu is rift with real estate scams on both the tenant and the landlord side. 

Most of the ones who are trying to scam you are pretty easy to sort out.

Big Forestry outfit they then sent one of their guys to Mexico city to meet with a top flight lawyer there and it turned out 10k later to be a total scam..

It is certainly not a scam, and it works.

The fact that the seller has an attorney could just mean that two people are in on the scam.2.

This is a scam right?

It sounds like this woman is well practiced at the art of scamming landlords.