The crazy cheap ones are, but I live in an apartment I found on there. Just don’t put money down without visiting

Yeah. There's a widespread scam on CL where they take pictures and text from an MLS sale listing and post it on CL for a surprisingly low price. It's an identity theft scam. They try to get you to apply to qualify for a site tour.

Bah, there goes my paranoia. I was already deeply uncomfortable with the amount of information my landlord demanded to sign the lease. Now I know that it has straight up been used for identity theft.

jeffbee did not write that the landlord commits fraud using tenants’ information. They wrote scammers pretending to be landlords do that.