The big scam.... Part 1

I think its time to jump back into the blog world and write about our move from Washington to California.  I would like to start off with how we ended up getting scammed off of craigslist!

When Jon and I finally got confirmation that we would be moving to California, we were SO excited! This has been the move we have been wanting and waiting for.  Jon of course had to put in the work at his office to be given this awesome opportunity, all of his hard work had finally paid off.

Back in July, Jon and I made our 1st trip to San Jose to find a place to live, I posted about that trip here.  We were SO excited about finding a condo on criagslist that was for rent and met our price range, I wrote about our "awesome" apartment here. We thought it was perfect and it was in the perfect location.  This all unfortunately turned out to be too good to be true :(

Turns out the lady, Monique,  we thought we were renting from is a HUGE scammer! Can you believe that?!  We thought that everything was legit, since we actually looked at the apartment, signed a lease with her, and even gave her a deposit of $1,500.

Everything was fine, until about the middle of August, when she stopped answering our texts, emails and phone calls.  I tried to stay positive and think of reasons why she wasn't getting back to us.  But then, about 2 weeks before our move, I just had a bad feeling in my stomach, so I decided to do some investigation on Monique.  I tried to google her name, but had no luck, so then I googled her phone number and I hit the jack-pot! About 3 different craigslist ad's popped up, with her trying to rent out the condo that WE had put a deposit on!!! My heart seriously just sank to my stomach! I didn't know what to do or think!  I decided to call her, of course she didn't answer her phone! So i left her a message asking her to call me back.  I knew she wouldn't call back, so my co-worker called Monique's phone number off of her phone and left her a message saying that she was interested in the condo posted on craigslist, about 5 mins later, her phone starts ringing and its Monique......

Back with the rest of the story tomorrow!!! Believe me, its gets better!!