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New Jersey man rents a rural cottage at a below-market price, discovers the lease classifies the property as owner-occupied, and his landlords are probably scammers – FAIL Blog

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When he had internet installed, the landlords lost their minds. He was told he was a boarder renting a bedroom, not a tenant renting a house, that no vendor was allowed on the property without an owner present, and that one of them would be coming to potentially uninstall it. The owners who rarely visit and could not be bothered to show up for key handover were suddenly very interested in his wifi situation. He kept his composure, apologized for the misunderstanding, and sent them a thoughtful garden plants identification roundup. They responded by refusing to give him a timeframe for the visit and suggesting he did not need to be present in his own home while a man he barely knows came to inspect it.

The owner-occupied classification being fraudulent is almost beside the point at this stage. Whether this is sloppy Airbnb operators out of their depth, mortgage fraud by people with terrible poker faces, or just control freaks who found a legal mechanism to be controlling, the result is the same. He is recovering, living alone in a cottage with unlockable bedroom doors, and his landlords are already unhinged over an internet installation. Whatever is actually going on here, it is going to get worse before it gets better.



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