{"id":88,"date":"2024-04-27T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/2024\/04\/rental-scams-rampant-in-toronto-amid-tight-rental-market\/"},"modified":"2024-04-27T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T13:00:00","slug":"rental-scams-rampant-in-toronto-amid-tight-rental-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/2024\/04\/rental-scams-rampant-in-toronto-amid-tight-rental-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Rental scams rampant in Toronto amid tight rental market"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Prospective renters in Toronto should be cautious when renting online, as two individuals shared their experiences of being scammed out of rental properties. They found listings on Rentals.ca, pre-paid rent, but never received keys or found someone else living in the unit. The platform now verifies landlords to prevent fraud.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/toronto.ctvnews.ca\/mobile\/rental-scams-rampant-in-toronto-s-tight-market-1.6805389?cache=\/7.587727\/7.400262\/7.400070\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prospective renters in Toronto should be cautious when renting online, as two individuals shared their experiences of being scammed out of rental properties. They found listings on Rentals.ca, pre-paid rent, but never received keys or found someone else living in the unit. The platform now verifies landlords to prevent fraud. Continue to full article<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelvinyu.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}