Woman Charged With Trying To Rent Out Vacant Foreclosure Belonging To Bank

In California, the Daily Breeze reports:

• "A woman accused of trying to rent out a Torrance house she didn't own testified Friday she was hired by the owner as a property manager. [The judge] said at the conclusion of 24-year-old Glenda Anderson's preliminary hearing that she gave an "arguably reasonable explanation for her presence at the house." However, [he] ruled there was enough evidence to send her to trial on two counts of attempted grand theft because there was no evidence to support her explanation. The judge ordered her to return to court Aug. 31."

For more, including the details of how the alleged scam was discovered, how police set up an undercover "sting" to catch Anderson in the alleged illegal act, and the uncooperative response given to police by an employee of Nationwide Mortgage, the company Anderson said she worked for, see Woman says she's a victim during preliminary hearing (But judge orders her to stand trial for trying to rent out a Torrance house she didn't own).

For the story of an Austin, Texas man accused of swindling money from people by purportedly renting houses not belonging to him (reportedly used the Internet and Craigslist to find victims), see Real estate fraud suspect caught.

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