Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Texas Cops Seek Alleged Scammer For Renting Out Homes He Doesn't Own To Tenants

In Desoto, Texas, WFAA-TV Channel 8 reports:
  • [P]olice are looking into a former mayoral candidate who they say is renting homes he doesn't even own. Officers showed up in a DeSoto neighborhood to search a home for information on Morris Mosley. [...] Now there's a warrant out for his arrest. Investigators say he broke into multiple homes that are in foreclosure or up for sale and rented them out for profit. "To go into someone else's home and then rent it to someone else when you don't have the property - that's pretty bold," said Corporal Ted May from DeSoto Police.

For more, see Former mayoral candidate accused of illegal renting.

For the story of one homeowner facing foreclosure who vacated her home while putting it up for sale, only to find illegal tenants living in the home (and who allegedly rented the home from Morris Mosley) when she stopped by to check on it, see DeSoto woman finds people living in her house.

Go here and go here for other posts on tenant victims of rent hoaxes. unwitting tenant rent scam yacht