Bossier City family falls victim to bogus Craigslist home rental ad

BOSSIER CITY, LA (KSLA) -

A Bossier City family learned the hard way what it's like to deal with a bogus home rental after losing more than $1,000 in a property nightmare.

Husband and wife Jack and Wendy Harvill said a South Bossier City home they looked into renting ended up being a bogus deal.

"It was just nuts! You would have never figured in a million years it would have been a scam," said Jack Harvill.

It all started when the couple began a search to find a place to live for their 19-year-old son and his friend.

"Basically it was going to be hard to rent a home due to their age, so he was going to have to have mom and dad's help," Harvill said.

The couple turned to Craigslist, a classified ad website, and that's when they found what they thought was a perfect home in South Bossier City. The ad claimed rent was only $700 a month, utilities included.

"The home looked really nice, totally updated, recently remodeled," Harvill said.

The woman who claimed to be renting out the house wouldn't let them see the inside of it, but told them to look through the windows to check it out.

"It wasn't clicking to me that anything was wrong," Harvill said.

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Bossier City family falls victim to bogus Craigslist home rental ad