Maybe. Real estate is weird, full of odd personalities, third parties, bizarre business practices. My first NYC apartment I left the broker feeling 90% sure I

Maybe. Real estate is weird, full of odd personalities, third parties, bizarre business practices. My first NYC apartment I left the broker feeling 90% sure I had been scammed. But all of the things that seemed weird to me were actually fairly normal and indeed I had the place. In big cities where rentals are big business, the unusual is pretty usual.