Unfair and Deceptive Acts and Practices: 8.2.2 Apartment Finders
Fraudulent apartment finders promise, for a fee, to find housing for low-income people to rent or rent-to-own. In areas where housing is scarce or substandard, or where segregated housing patterns lock people out of large portions of the housing market, apartment finders have considerable appeal. False and exaggerated claims by apartment finders are appropriate subjects for UDAP claims.70