So, we are looking out for a new house (don't ask me why - only ask if you're really interested in listening to domestic woes for about 2 hours), and my chief hunting grounds is www.gesucht.de, a very neat site for available housing all over Germany. I've actually seen some possible houses through this site, so its not like the site itself is scammy in any way.
I found 2 ads for 2 different houses, in the same neighborhood, a lane away from each other, which seemed fairly nice, furnished and at kinda appropriate prices. I send appropriately worded posts (translated on Google Translate) to the posters, and yesterday, I get replies. Read below:
Hello,
First of all I'm sorry for the late reply but I had a lot to work and this is the time I could give you a message. From the site add, you could see, that the apartment located in:Mörgensstraße 4 ,52064 Aachen Innenstadt . It has 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom, 1 kitchen and 1 living room .
I am looking for someone to live in it, as soon as possible, because my company has won the auction for a project, in construction, for a building that will rise up in Nicosia / Cyprus. I am a civil engineer, so my accommodation period in Nicosia,Cyprus will be about 4 years. The renting period is from 2 months upto 4 years. As a result of this I want to rent, for this period, at this price and also to find the perfect person for my apartment. I`m the owner of the apt and it's like in the pics.
The apartment is furnished, but I have the option of sending all my furniture into storage if you want to bring your own (no extra costs). The rent for 1 month is 400 Euro, but you must to deposit 800euro/2months (for the whole apartment) including all utilities (water, electricity, Internet, cable, parking, air conditioning, fireplace, dishwasher, garbage disposal, microwave, refrigerator). You can move in the apt in the same day when you receive the keys. The only problem is that I`m the only person who has the keys but I hope that we will find a solution.
Thank you for your interest and I will look forward to hearing from you soon.
Good luck,
Garey Ylowrn
P.S. Please tell me if this is what are you looking for and reply my only if you are truly interested in the aptartment.
First of all I'm sorry for the late reply but I had a lot to work and this is the time I could give you a message. From the site add, you could see, that the apartment located in:Mörgensstraße 4 ,52064 Aachen Innenstadt . It has 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom, 1 kitchen and 1 living room .
I am looking for someone to live in it, as soon as possible, because my company has won the auction for a project, in construction, for a building that will rise up in Nicosia / Cyprus. I am a civil engineer, so my accommodation period in Nicosia,Cyprus will be about 4 years. The renting period is from 2 months upto 4 years. As a result of this I want to rent, for this period, at this price and also to find the perfect person for my apartment. I`m the owner of the apt and it's like in the pics.
The apartment is furnished, but I have the option of sending all my furniture into storage if you want to bring your own (no extra costs). The rent for 1 month is 400 Euro, but you must to deposit 800euro/2months (for the whole apartment) including all utilities (water, electricity, Internet, cable, parking, air conditioning, fireplace, dishwasher, garbage disposal, microwave, refrigerator). You can move in the apt in the same day when you receive the keys. The only problem is that I`m the only person who has the keys but I hope that we will find a solution.
Thank you for your interest and I will look forward to hearing from you soon.
Good luck,
Garey Ylowrn
P.S. Please tell me if this is what are you looking for and reply my only if you are truly interested in the aptartment.
Now, having spent time in Germany - there's nothing extraordinarily sinister about this reply. I've got fairly similar worded replies from other homeowners, especially those who have to urgently move, and are pretty desperate about giving up their place. The only thing that struck me was when I received an IDENTICAL reply to my other house query, right down to the language, with the only change being the name! Thats when I suspected a scam, and all it took was a simple search on Google to come up with this http://www.scamwarners.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=7099&p=56506. Its seems this rental scam is pretty big all over Europe, Australia and other parts of the world.
Lesson for the scamsters? Change your program to email a renter only once for multiple post queries. Lesson for me? Don't get your hopes up :-(
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