Fraud

Talmage and I were originally going to move into Tempe for the summer and rent out our house. It seemed like Talmage would have a lot on his plate and taking two hours or more out of driving to Tempe each day for school and work seemed like a pretty good idea.

We had a few different people wanting to rent our house this summer, who found us at ldshousing. We had a renter lined up and place to rent but for some reason it didn't feel right. We told our renter and offered her to stay in our guest room, which she excepted gladly. She was supposedly going to come the 15th of June and she is a graduate student and currently in England... supposedly. She said that her dad would send the check for the deposit and first month's rent. He sent me over $3000 and asked me to take the deposit and first months rent out and then send the rest to his daughters travel agent to arrange her flight. I went to cash the check and it was a FRAUD! Can you believe it. Weird. Needless to say, we ended up not moving. The banker lady told me that if someone wants you to send money elsewhere for them, it is most likely a scam. If we would have moved we would have already said no to other real renters and had no one renting our house and we would be paying for both. It goes to show that if you prayerfully consider something the Lord will look out for you. The good thing out of this all is that my guest bedroom is completely clean! ... my garage, not so much.

Anyways, this semester is not as bad as we thought it was going to be for Talmage. He is taking a programming class and a geographic information systems class, GIS, and he says they are fairly easy especially because he has experience with GIS. He is also working on his capstone project and working part time. He has only had to stay in town at Lindsay's house two times.