Now that Dorchester, and many other communities, have a surplus of foreclosed multi-families, there is a new property scam out there. Con artists, posing to be landlords of foreclosed properties, are renting vacant foreclosures to unsuspecting tenants. Theses scammers are collecting rents from the tenants yet have no legal authority to do so. In turn, the agents and attorneys managing these properties find out and now have to evict them on behalf of the entity that actually owns it. Meanwhile the tenants are out of a home and possibly thousands of dollars paid to these false landlords.
A simple thing to do to avoid this is to rent through a reputable rental agency or at the very least check to see who owns the property online at the Suffolk County Registry of Deeds and make sure it coincides with the landlord on the lease.
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