Use prefixes! They are a drop down selection before your thread title - "For Rent" or "Wanted".
Although rentals longer than 6 months are considered "long term" in Walton County, people looking for anything longer than a week or 2 will be looking in this forum - so go ahead and post here if you are renting for a month or longer.
Don't abbreviate town- use "Santa Rosa Beach" not SRB - this will help people find you in search and search engines.
This is the long term rental forum for South Walton! Do not put "long term rental" or "LTR" in your title! We already know that.
Owners: You must include contact info and price as well as other relevant details.
Please be specific. Indicate location, how many bedrooms and bathrooms, furnished or unfurnished, included utilities, rent, pets or no pets, amount of rent fixed or flexible, deposit, and smoking or non-smoking. Also include anything out of the ordinary like “must bring own mower for yard work”.
Pictures tell the whole story even better. If you don’t have any let the potential renter know.
When it comes to contact information feel free to use phone number, email address, private message, or all three. Also be sure to check back in on your post to follow up and answer any questions or make changes to price or other items (there is a time limit on editing original post so you can just add on a post with new info).
Note - failure to post enough info, especially rent amount and contact info will cause your post to be deleted. Posting a link only is considered link spam and will be deleted.
Once it’s rented, please simply post a response that the unit is rented and no longer available. Threads are not deleted so you have to add a post to it or you will continue to get calls.
Renters:
Please read the owner or agent's post closely, and your own - be sure to call or send email if they posted that info, you can also send a PM.
Also if the post is more than a couple of months old, and you’ve done a search, odds are pretty good that the unit is rented. Even then use the contact method posted instead of responding to an old posting.
Thanks and good luck!
Please use caution and use the "report post" feature at the bottom of a suspicious post.
The listing details are vague.
They don't want to show you the place first.
They're ready to make a deal with no background info.
They're out of the country.
They want you to sign before seeing anything.
The asking rent doesn’t match up.
They instruct you to wire money.
Although rentals longer than 6 months are considered "long term" in Walton County, people looking for anything longer than a week or 2 will be looking in this forum - so go ahead and post here if you are renting for a month or longer.
Don't abbreviate town- use "Santa Rosa Beach" not SRB - this will help people find you in search and search engines.
This is the long term rental forum for South Walton! Do not put "long term rental" or "LTR" in your title! We already know that.
Owners: You must include contact info and price as well as other relevant details.
Please be specific. Indicate location, how many bedrooms and bathrooms, furnished or unfurnished, included utilities, rent, pets or no pets, amount of rent fixed or flexible, deposit, and smoking or non-smoking. Also include anything out of the ordinary like “must bring own mower for yard work”.
Pictures tell the whole story even better. If you don’t have any let the potential renter know.
When it comes to contact information feel free to use phone number, email address, private message, or all three. Also be sure to check back in on your post to follow up and answer any questions or make changes to price or other items (there is a time limit on editing original post so you can just add on a post with new info).
Note - failure to post enough info, especially rent amount and contact info will cause your post to be deleted. Posting a link only is considered link spam and will be deleted.
Once it’s rented, please simply post a response that the unit is rented and no longer available. Threads are not deleted so you have to add a post to it or you will continue to get calls.
Renters:
Please read the owner or agent's post closely, and your own - be sure to call or send email if they posted that info, you can also send a PM.
Also if the post is more than a couple of months old, and you’ve done a search, odds are pretty good that the unit is rented. Even then use the contact method posted instead of responding to an old posting.
Thanks and good luck!
Please use caution and use the "report post" feature at the bottom of a suspicious post.
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How to Protect Yourself from Scams Targeting Renters
Be suspicious that the property or transaction could be a scam if:- The advertised price is much lower than that of similar properties.
- Ads for the property have grammatical and spelling errors, or overuse capital letters.
- The ad uses uncommon spellings of words, like "favour" instead of "favor."
- You can only work with an agent. The agent says that the owner is too busy, out of the country, or otherwise unavailable to handle the rental.
- The owner or agent requires you to sign the lease before you see the rental property.
- The owner or agent isn't able to let you enter the home or apartment or charges you a fee to view it.
- The owner or agent uses high-pressure sales tactics. They may urge you to rent quickly before someone else gets the property.
Do
- Learn the basics of how rental listing scams work.
- Get the terms of your rental in writing, including fees, rent, and maintenance.
- Get a copy of the lease, signed by both you and the property owner/manager.
- Do a search on the owner, real estate management company, and listing. If you find the same ad listed under a different name, that’s a clue it may be a scam.
- Visit real estate websites. See if the home you want to rent is also listed in another city. A scammer could have copied the photo or description of another rental to use in their ad.
- Learn how military families can avoid rental scams (PDF, Download Adobe Reader).
Don’t
- Don’t wire money as a deposit or payment for the first and last month's rent. Wiring money is the same as giving cash; you can't get a refund, even if you find out the offer was a fraud.
- Don’t give in to high-pressure sales tactics.
- Don’t pay a security deposit, fee, or first month’s rent before you’ve signed a lease.
- Don’t rent a property that you are unable to see before signing the agreement.
- Don’t send money for a rental overseas.
- Don’t give your personal information or Social Security number to a property owner without verifying their identity.
The listing details are vague.
They don't want to show you the place first.
They're ready to make a deal with no background info.
They're out of the country.
They want you to sign before seeing anything.
The asking rent doesn’t match up.
They instruct you to wire money.
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