Can anyone offer advise to my latest question please??
I have advertised my apartement on the net and I have a few people from Sweeden and USA interested. They want to take the apartment and are willin to post cheque for deposit etc
Has anyone had any experiences of renting this way - good or bad??
Thanks
just curious which area you are in. I am finding it difficult to rent in swords at the moment. I am having to reduce rents and accept longer vacant periods.I'm having such a nightmare.. had to evict current tenant for non payment of rent... thought it was too good to be true..
Thanks for advice
The approach via email OP has had to rent her property has all the hall-marks of a scam, that a certainty.You can't be conned - just ask for 1 months deposit and 1 months rent in advance, and wait until the money is in your account.
You should ask for an IBAN bank transfer, cheques are very 20th century, they should wire the money electronically from their account to yours. It takes between 1 and 3 days for the funds to hit your account once the transfer has been actioned
Anyone naive enough to wire money to someone they havent met could well be genuine.
Obviously find out why they are coming to Ireland, are they professional people, where will they be working, do as many checks as you can, speak to them too on the phone.
With a little common sense and due diligence, you are not taking a big risk by accepting people by e-mail.
Nothing is certain, the word certain should be deleted from the dictionary. The only certainty I can think of is that in 5 or 10 billion years, the sun will get a lot hotter, as it approaches the end of its life. All the seas and oceans will evaporate. Sometime after that, the sun will burn out, and then whatever humans are left on the earth will not be worried about finding new tenants (probably).
She is willing to send the cheque now and she is not coming to Ireland until the first week in May so it will have time to clear...
If anything I thought she is taking a big risk too as i could be scamming her by taking her money and not renting the apartement to her..
I am quite a trusting person but my last tenant has really made me suspicous of everyone now, i don't know who to trust anymore!!!
She is willing to send the cheque now and she is not coming to Ireland until the first week in May so it will have time to clear...
Good idea; ask her to send a euro draft for the specific amount you want to reserve the apartment for her. It will speed things up and remove some anxieties in relation to "foreign" cheques / currencies / exchange rates / bank charges....or she's sending a Euro bank draft, which will clear straight away.
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