The hot new real estate scam

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 of dollars missing from his bank account. The property management firm Decker works for, the caller said, had charged him nearly $10,000 for rent over several months — despite the fact that he had never lived at any of its more than 600 rental homes...

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