pb4uski
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I'm just about to make a deposit on a VRBO rental my wife found.
The owner lives in South America and owns a condo in Florida that we plan to rent for February.
I have some nagging doubts as to whether it is a sham, though nothing points to it.
We have communicated with the owner via email (and once by phone) numerous times over the past week. The condo association has a website and the telephone number works (voicemail only, have yet to actually talk to someone). The owner gave me the cellphone number of the person currently renting the property and I called it, left a voicemail and he called me back promptly.
The owner is not set up to take a credit card for our deposit and wanted a bank transfer. I asked if he could do Paypal and he can.
What do you think? Is there any other diligence that I should do?
I can pay the deposit via PayPal and charge it to my credit card, but may incur some foreign transaction fees, but if putting it on my credit card offers me any additional protection if it is a sham I would gladly pay the additional fees.
Am I overthinking this? We haven't ever done anything like this before.
The owner lives in South America and owns a condo in Florida that we plan to rent for February.
I have some nagging doubts as to whether it is a sham, though nothing points to it.
We have communicated with the owner via email (and once by phone) numerous times over the past week. The condo association has a website and the telephone number works (voicemail only, have yet to actually talk to someone). The owner gave me the cellphone number of the person currently renting the property and I called it, left a voicemail and he called me back promptly.
The owner is not set up to take a credit card for our deposit and wanted a bank transfer. I asked if he could do Paypal and he can.
What do you think? Is there any other diligence that I should do?
I can pay the deposit via PayPal and charge it to my credit card, but may incur some foreign transaction fees, but if putting it on my credit card offers me any additional protection if it is a sham I would gladly pay the additional fees.
Am I overthinking this? We haven't ever done anything like this before.