Sublet Payment Requirement- Input Needed

really? you need someone to tell you that this is a scam?

ok, it's a scam.

you beat me to it. yes this screams of scam.

Have you actually seen an apartment or are you just dealing with an advertisement?

Sounds like a run run run situation.

Obviously that is my overwhelming instinct but I am out of town until I come in to live which is the major problem. So there is no precedent for paying anything other than month-to-month right, even for a furnished rental.

there should be no difference between a sublet and a rental. asking for first month and security would be normal. asking for a wire before signing anything would be anything but normal.

call the police before someone else gets scammed

heatfanz
about 6 hours ago
ignore this person
report abuse Obviously that is my overwhelming instinct but I am out of town until I come in to live which is the major problem. So there is no precedent for paying anything other than month-to-month right, even for a furnished rental.

there is no "normal"...if you have no job until you get here, a proven payment history, than it is very normal for a ll to ask for as much as the whole term of the lease in one upfront payment. it's the wiring money bit that seems sketchy. people wire money to my company all the time, but we're a large outfit.