Our tenant has just left so the house has just been put up for sale or rent.

A week last Sunday an agent called me and said that somebody wanted to rent the house, complete with offer of payment up front and no quibbling on the price.

The "tenant" had only seen the house on the internet but having been around a bit none of it rang true so I accepted subject to a couple of questions about tenant. The agent contacted "tenant" and that was the last they/we heard. Agent unable to contact "tenant" after that, this started and concluded during the Sunday morning!

Anyway, I would not have bothered mentioning it until a couple of days ago I discovered that at almost the same time somebody selling a house on the same estate received the offer he could not refuse, again in similar circumstances, and of course that was the last heard of it.

Any similar experiences?

Yes. Scrap that agent and move on.

Yes. Scrap that agent and move on.

Different agents involved with the two properties. Just similar circumstances with the two in the same estate at the same time,so my question is still ,anybody have similar experiences recently?

Its not too dissimilar to the many properties you see for sale and rent on the buy, sell,swap fb sites.

From just a couple of photos, you get people saying I am interested, probably no serious interest really.

I just wonder if some people like to be vindictive and controlling, knowing they are building sometimes hopes up only to laugh when they vanish from sight.

Of course many people take it a step further and spend their weekends trawling around other peoples property as a hobby and some may be just surveying and making a want list for a future break in.

I agree to be cautious of the "too good to be true" scenario.