New Real Estate Scam: Lease Fraud Drives up Rents, Worsens Home Search | NYGazet

Landlords are panicking over scammers using fake documents to fraudulently rent apartments and homes. The con could make everyone's home search worse.

Jared Decker was on his way to lunch when he received the phone call that kicked off a monthslong real estate nightmare. It was the fall of 2023, and the caller was an aggrieved local businessman in Tampa, Florida, who had just discovered thousands o... [13626 chars]