My girlfriend and I are looking for a place to live in September and as such I've been sending emails to people on kijiji looking for more info on places that have no picture and poor details...Honestly, do these people not understand how to market their places? this isn't the newspaper where you pay per letter, write me a fucking book and give me a virtual tour!
Anyways, here is a great response I got and the following chain and conclusion:
I send an email asking for an address and pictures, in response I get:
Hello,
Thanks for your email and it is my gladness to hearing from you.I am MR TERRY ADENIJI,the owner of the house you are making enquiry of.Actually I resided in the house with my family,such as my wife and my only daugther before and presently we had packed due to my transfer from my working place and now situated in BLOOMFIELD NEW JERSEY USA and presently my house is still available for rent for $1000 per month including the utilities like hydro,washer and security,it is furnised.Moreso Now, i went for a Crusade in the WEST AFRICA (NIGERIA) and i will like you to get in touch with my wife in the state for more discussion as She is with the keys and the document to the house.Pls i want you to note that,i am a kind and honest man and also i spent alot on my property that i want to give you for rent,so i will solicit for your absolute mentenance of this house and want you to treat it as your own,is that taken,it is not the money the main problem but want you
to keep it tidy all the time so that i will be glad to see it neat when i came for a check up.i do that once in a while.I also want you to let me have trust in you as i always stand on my word.
Email my wife Christina on favour.willsterry@hotmail.com and she will attends to you better. and also you can also call me aswell on my phone always so that i can attaend to you because my wife phone is faulty at this time and here is my phone # +2347033440517.
Thanks and you are welcome
Thanks
Wow...none of my questions answered, and now this confusing poorly written and spelled email! first off, why does he caps and bold his name and places?! is it furnished, why wouldn't he say that in the ad? This guy is on a fucking CRUSADE?! WHO GOES ON CRUSADES! I thought that is what happened when christians tried to take over the world! Maybe he meant cruise, that is what he must have meant, I look up Nigeria and see it's on the ocean...Wait, Nigeria?! Isn't that where the scams are from? oy, anyways, what is this about me having to pay for maintenance? that is not my duty, that is landlord's duty, and if money is not an issue, then pay someone to do it for you! what the hell? So now this guy is also going to come and check up on the place from New Jersey and Nigeria? for what? and is he going to just come into the place while I live there?! What does it mean to stand ON your word?
So he asks me to talk to his wife Christina, who I hope has better english skills, but apparently a faulty phone? how much are phones? so he gives me his number, which I almost died laughing when I saw it, thinking, WTF IS THIS?! Is this a real number? Looks like way too many digits, but I look up the area code for Nigeria, and sure enough it's a proper length number. Wow I don't feel like calling that long distance.
This all seemed pretty weird and sketchy, so I said fuck it, but then decided later to email back just for fun to the wife. I wrote:
Hey,
I didn't quite get the questions I was looking for answered.
Where is this house located, like the exact address. Also do you have pictures of those house, and utilities are included? Does the house already have furniture? Would you get billed for any maintenance and problems as you would be out of the country and unable to fix? What is a bonus room?
Yes I forgot to mention that this house had a "bonus room". What is that anyways? like an extra bedroom, an extra office, a room I win for taking the house? can't they just say 2bedroom + office or something?
So anyways here is the wife's response:
Hello ,
Thanks for the email and also Yes,my husband in respect of MR TERRY ADENIJI owned the house and i also want you to know that it was due to my husband transfer that makes us to leave the house and also want to give it out for rent and looking for a resposible person that can take very good care of it as we are not after the money for the rent but want it to be clean at the time and the person that will rent it to take it as if it were its own.So for now,Am here in the State in BLOOMFIELD NEW JERSEY USA our new house and also with the keys of the house,we try to look for an agent that we can give this document before we left but could not see and we are as well as dont want our house to be used any how in our present that is why we took it along to us here and as you know that,my husband over in the WEST AFRICA for a mission of God,so i hope you will promise us to take very good care of the house.So get back to me on how you could take care of our house or perhaps experience you have in renting home.Hope you are okay with the price and its included the ultilities with hydro,heat laundry facilities,air condition and so on. and also the rent is $1000
FEATURES
Our House is very clean and includes all the ultilities and well maintained and the features a excercise facilities in the House i have also
attached the pictures for you to see..
Living Room: 13.2 x 18.6
Dining Room: 11 x 11.6
Kitchen: 9.10 x 7.7
Master Bedroom: 14.11 x 10.2
Bedroom: 12 x 10.2
Rec Room: 28 x 9.10
*marble fireplace/stove,
*internet access
*hardwood foyer,
*stove, fridge, dishwasher,
*washer/dryer connections.
*Private parking for 3 cars,
*Laundry
*Patio / Porch
*Parking, off-street(private)
*Fireplace
*Hardwoods
NEIGHBORHOOD AMENITIES
the House is close to schools, shopping. It is within walking distance of Extra Foods, restaurants, A major road nearby.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Heat, water , internet access and one outside energized parking stall is included in the rent. Dog and Cats are permitted with pending approval of
pet application.
TERM OF PAYMENT
You can rent my house for as long as you want, but as for a start for rent fee , you will deposited 1 TO 3 Months rent charges for your move
IN Start that is if you which, and the payment method is through Western Union Money Transfer by the tenants .
I look forward to hearing from you ASAP so that i can forward you an application to fill out and discuss on how to get the house for
rent,also are you ready to rent it now or when?
I have attached the pics of the house for you to view.
Thanks,
Await your reply.
MRS CHRISTANA ADENIJI
allllrighty then, not much better for writing...it's almost as if they both went to the same writing school. And MY GOD HE IS ON CRUSADE!!! WTF?! When I hear someone leaves North America to go to an african country to kill innocent people because god told them to, I'm a little worried about this person being my landlord...So none of my questions were answered except for utilities, and wait, if he is on crusade, why did he not have time to just sell house when transferred? Hey guess what everybody? A MAJOR ROAD IS NEARBY! WOO! wtf does that shit mean? you can't tell me even what street it is on? So I google for Extra Foods locations in Kitchener, and the website doesn't list anything near the region, and google didn't turn up anything, so that sure didn't help me figure out which major road. So now I have to pay up to 3 months rent on moving in? I'm pretty sure that is illegal and makes no sense and western union is always sketchy. So it's almost as if they didn't really read what I wrote. You'll notice it says they attached pictures, but the 9 links were of this format:
http://bl133w.blu133.mail.live.com/mail/ReadMessageL ight.aspx?Action=ScanAttac hment&AllowUnsafeContentOv erride=False&AttachmentInd ex=0&AttachmentDepth=0&Fol derID=00000000-0000-0000-0 000-000000000003&InboxSort Ascending=False&InboxSortB y=Date&IsMessageSafe=True& MessageCodePage=1252&ReadM essageId=c36e3b4f-8511-453 7-af7b-0a19ba7d0553&n=3387 43599
which tried to sign me into their friggin hotmail, like what is that? did they try to attach the webpage that attaches pictures? This is seriously retarded, so I send one more email to see what is going on:
Hi,
can you give me an address or street and intersection of where the house is? I can't decide if I don't know where the place is located. Also, the pictures didn't attach properly, can you try and resend or upload to a site and send me the link?
Response:
Hello
Thanks for your response, we are very Glad to see your mail and to here that you are an honest clean person and its great . me and my husband have been doing good in the home before we get moved and we need someone that will take it clean and nice always. i have attached the application form for you to fill and every thing can moved on and also i want you to forward a copy of the application to me and my husband as soon as you fill it out via email. and the pictures are attached again and here is the location is 4 Copper Leaf St,Kitchener ON Canada
APPLICATION TO RENT
(Please list above all proposed rental properties you âre interested in applying for)
Occupancy Date Desired:
** PLEASE NOTE THAT INCOMPLETE APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE PROCESSED! WE REQUIRE A SEPARATE APPLICATION FOR EACH ADULT ** PERSONAL INFORMATION:
Last Name: First Name: Middle Initial:
Date of Birth:
Social Insurance Number:
(optional)
Drivers License or BCID #:
Telephone Number:
Alt. Telephone Number:
The total number of proposed occupants including yourself (please circle one) 1 2 3 4 5 6+
RENTAL HISTORY:
CURRENT Address:
City:
Province:
Move-In Date:
Move-Out Date:
Owner/Manager Name:
Owner/Manager Contact #:
Reason for moving:
PAST Address:
City:
Province:
Move-In Date:
Move-Out Date:
Owner/Manager Name:
Owner/Manager Contact #:
Reason for moving:
PAST Address;
City:
Province:
Move-In Date:
Move-Out Date:
Owner/Manager Name:
Owner/Manager Contact #:
Reason for moving:
EMPLOYMENT INFORMATION:
Job Title: Company Name:
Length of Employment: Supervisor/Mgr. Name:
Employer Address & Contact Information:
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT INFORMATION:
GENERAL INFORMATION:
Please check off the following:
Do you have water-filled furniture/aquariums? YES_____ NO_____
Do you own a vacuum cleaner? YES _____ NO _____
Do any household members smoke? YES _____ NO _____
Do you own a lawnmower? YES _____ NO _____
Do you have any pets? YES _____ NO _____
If you checked off 'yes' for pets - please list size(s), breed(s), and name(s):
REFERENCES:
?? Name: Phone Number:
Address: Relationship:
?? Name: Phone Number:
Address: Relationship:
?? Name: Phone Number:
Address: Relationship:
I hereby represent that all of the above information is true, accurate and complete, and hereby of the abauthorize verification over items, including but not limited to the obtaining of a credit report/and or recovery of monetary claims, and agree to furnish additional credit references on request.
DATE: ..........................APPLICANT SIGNATURE: .......................... ...
Wow, wtf, I didn't say anything but I guess I proved I was honest and clean. I didn't even bother reading the rest of that form, but lots of spelling mistakes and weird stuff at the end. Seriously f'd up. So after writing about this I just did a google search for MR. TERRY ADENIJI and found this:
http://kingston.kijiji.ca/
which basically states this guy is a scam and this was from kingston! just wow, and I saw that damn 4 copper leaf place in kitchener almost everyday updated on kijiji and craigslist and was like, stop friggin reposting!
He is on facebook, and check out his one friend that is listed:
it's a picture of some spam housing website!!!
Other sites detailing in wayyy more detail about the scam and phone numbers:
http://chicaneryconsscams.
What a douche.
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