Sulekha.com — people being allowed to post false advertisements putting my condo for rent

Address:	94085
Website:	us.sulekha.com

As i reported on december 11, 2017 to ic3, legitimate tenants of the rental property i own — at 250 santa fe ter apt 213, sunnyvale, ca 94085 — have been bothered several times over the past three months by strangers asking to view the place. They either had already forwarded hundreds of dollars to a person offering the "rental" on the website, sulekha, or were about to. The ad includes pictures purported to be of the interior of the unit. We would get one ad taken down, and another would crop up weeks later. There have been at least 4 instances of this over the past 90 days that we know about, and perhaps others we do not. Some people responding to this latest ad, were willing to provide details of their experience. This case, as in the last one, the imposter says he is seeking an agreement, deposit, and first monthˈs rent right away. After he has that, he promises to send the "renter" the key as he is not available to provide it personally. He says he is in pennsylvania taking care of a sick father and will be away for 6 months or more during which time he asks the new renters to "take good care of [his] place."

The advertiser captures and displays nice pictures of some entirely different property implying they show the interior of the place at the address above. The lease form that the advertiser forwarded to the interested renters is not mine. I have a valid signed lease agreement with the current tenantsˈ signatures and my own. The unit being advertised is not available for rent and has not been since august 2017 after my we formalized our agreement. The property is now happily occupied by my current tenants who have been paying rent as agreed since september of this year (2017).