<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e0992c6f-874c-4229-bbe4-cf448b64f175/DB6BB55D-BBD5-4EA4-BC45-D478DFC58549/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://ourinvestmentgroup.com/rental-scams" href="http://ourinvestmentgroup.com/rental-scams" style="font-size: 11px;">ourinvestmentgroup.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ourinvestmentgroup.com/rental-scams"><P>The volatile housing market brings out scammers like cockroaches in an unclean kitchen. Being a real estate investor, I have seen many unclean kitchens. The good news about unclean kitchens is that the mess is obvious. Rental scams, on the other hand, appear neat but can make a mess of your rental property business if you fall for them. Here is what to look for so that you can screen out rental scams.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ourinvestmentgroup.com/rental-scams"><P>Rental scammers use two elements in their effort to unguard an unsuspecting landlord. The first element that they use to try an instill trust is what I call the <EM>church technique</EM>. They pretend to be a pastor or a reverend or a missionary or someone that is associated with a church. In most people’s mind, church equals good – as in a good psychological technique. See the email that I received below for an example:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ourinvestmentgroup.com/rental-scams"><P>I saw your apartment advertised on craigslist.com and am interested in renting it. I will be signing a one year lease for it and want to know the requirements for renting it. i.e</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DB6BB55D-BBD5-4EA4-BC45-D478DFC58549/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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