Here’s how it works: customer pays an up-front down payment, then pays two years of rent, then either buys the house at full price, or the company keeps the up

Here’s how it works: customer pays an up-front down payment, then pays two years of rent, then either buys the house at full price, or the company keeps the up-front payment, kicks them out, and sells to the highest bidder. Sorry; I’m calling this one for ‘likely scam’. The reason is the same reason ‘rent-to-own’ is always a scam: price has no memory. Those past rent payments have zero value against a competing bid. Neither does this up-front down-payment, which makes this extra scammy.